Chapter Four: Targets for Health

(i) Are the priority areas, ie heart disease and stroke, accidents, cancer and mental health the right ones on which to focus the strategy?

(ii) Have the targets been set at the right level?

(iii) Is the approach that is suggested for intermediate targets (i.e. for 2005) appropriate?

(iv) What would you add to the draft national contracts on heart disease and stroke, accidents, cancers and mental health? A blank contract is attached.

(v) How should local inequality targets best be centrally monitored?

(vi) How should local priorities be determined? On what evidence and by what process?

5.3 You can send your responses by detaching and completing the form Your Views on Better Health at the end of this Paper, or write to:

The Health Strategy Unit

Room 535

Department of Health

Wellington House

133-155 Waterloo Road

London SE1 8UG

5.4 This Green Paper can be found on the internet at http://www.open.gov.uk/doh/ohn/ohnhome.htm

You can also send responses by e-mail to ohn@doh.gov.uk

5.5 A summary of this Green Paper is available in English, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujurati, Urdu, Bengali, Chinese, Vietnamese, Greek, Turkish, Somali and Arabic and a taped audio version are available from the Health Literature Line, 0800 555 777.

5.6 The closing date for responses to this Green Paper is 30 April 1998.