Community Health and Fitness No 5.3 - CCG - Priority No 3 Secondary Prevention - Groups at Risk...?

Priority 3 for the Clinical Commissioning Groups is Secondary Prevention. I have interpreted this as the winkling out of a patient's symptoms at the early stage of a prospective major illness. The intention is to treat the patient early on so as to manage the illness in a way which prevents or mitigates its further development. The aim or effect is to prevent or reduce complications in later life and to increase life expectancy. 

Examples which might be given include:

• statins to reduce cholesterol;
• drugs, diet or exercise, etc to reduce blood pressure.

The King's Fund Trust report gives a diet ingredients for Commissioner to get their teeth to bite on. A few examples suffice to garner the flavours:

• manage disease registers through modelling;
• ensure control of hypertension, cholesterol, and diabetes;
• monitor and manage key health inequality drivers in the community
• develop partnerships to manage public health - with a primary care prevention component;
•  find ways to get to "non-engaging" patient populations

Finally the report identifies some of the support resources for the above which are available to CCGs in the UK.