Keep well (Formerly known as Prevention 2010)
Evidence suggests that the best short term gains in health inequalities are likely to come from NHS action. Keep well will see up to £25million being used to strengthen primary care services in the most deprived areas of Scotland. Additional staff will identify those at particular risk of preventable, serious ill health and offer health checks, screening and advice. The focus will be on cardiovascular disease and its main risk factors, especially blood pressure, cholesterol, smoking and diabetes. Treatments and referral to community and other NHS services will be offered, with regular monitoring and proactive follow-up. Resources will be targeted where they are needed most - that is in areas where the risk of ill health is high.
Using the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD), five Community Health Partnerships in Greater Glasgow, Lothian, Tayside and North Lanarkshire, have been identified to implement this new approach. A second wave of programmes was unveiled on 14 February 2007 by Andy Kerr MSP, Minister for Health and Community Care. Using the SIMD, this second wave will involve seven Community Health Partnerships across Fife, Ayrshire & Arran, Grampian and Greater Glasgow and Clyde.