Living well, ageing well and tackling premature mortality

Working to reduce the impact of major killer diseases such as stroke, cardiovascular disease and sepsis, along with other causes of morbidity such as frailty and musculoskeletal conditions.

Long term conditions

We’re working with a range of partners to help people in England live well.

Older people

We're working with a range of partners to help people in England to age well.

Stroke

Read about our work to improve the prevention and treatment of stroke.

Sepsis

Read about our work with partners to improve the recognition and treatment of sepsis.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD)

CVD is one of our clinical priorities. It affects around seven million people in the UK.

Latest news and blogs

Social prescribing at the library

12 October 2018

Dr Neil Churchill

NHS England’s Director for Experience, Participation and Equalities marks Libraries Week by highlighting some of the ways that public libraries are helping the NHS promote health and wellbeing: I recently met a woman who told me about the time she had lost the will to live. She’d lost her job and with it her circle […]