LGA ADPH Annual Public Health Conference, March 21, 2019

Errol Taylor, RoSPA chief executive

The National Accident Prevention Strategy

Agenda

Why do we need a national strategy?

The burden of accidental injury

Priority age groups

The National Accident Prevention Strategy:

• Introduction

• Key themes

• Highlights

• Getting involved

A national strategy for accident prevention

Safe and active at all ages:

a national strategy for the prevention of serious accidental injuries in England

Launched in Westminster in October 2018

Two years of development led by the

Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell

A national strategy for accident preventionAdvisory group co-ordinated by RoSPA

Development partners included:

Public Health England

Royal College of Emergency Medicine

Faculty of Public Health

Royal Society for Public Health

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Institute of Health Promotion & Education

Royal College of Nursing

RoSPA’s National Policy Committees:

NOSHC, NRSC, NWSF, NHSC, NSEC

Why does England need a national strategy for accident prevention?

Localism, fragmentation and coordination

Austerity and funding priorities

Growing burden of accidental injury

Unsustainable growth in demand for healthcare

Fragmentation and spending priorities

“Health is wealth”Duncan Selbie, CEO, PHE

Source: 2015 Review of Public Health in Scotland (Scottish Government)

The wider Public Health profession

Professionals united by a common language?

The growing burden of accidental injury

Deaths from accidents (numbers and rates), all ages,

England, 2013-2016, ONS.

Source: http://ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-results-tool

A&E attendance rates due to accidental injuries Source: Kirkwood G, Hughes TC, Pollock AM, Unintentional injury in England: an analysis of the emergency care data set pilot in Oxfordshire

from 2012 to 2014, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2017, 71(3)

Severity & numbers by location Analysis of 26,310 injuries recorded by Oxford University Hospitals Trust 1st January

2012 to 13th August 2013

Road n=4,020

Home n =10,949

Work n=2,119

Leisure n=6,602

Education n=2,620

A national strategy for accident prevention

Aim is “to achieve a step-change in the delivery of evidence-based accident prevention programmes across England, promoting safe and active lives and reducing the burden of serious accidental injury on society”

Life-course approach, with chapters covering: children (0-14); young people (15-24); adults (25-64); and older people (65+)

Data and recommendations cover road, home, leisure, workplace and education safety.

A national strategy for accident preventionKey themes:

Enabling, not risk averse

Links accident prevention to other issues on the health agenda

Targets inequalities

Advocates better data collection and sharing

Highlights importance of safer environments for healthy activity

Opportunities for input and support from private and third sector partners.

A national strategy for accident prevention25 recommendations across the life-course aimed at diverse partners including:

Central government

Those with responsibility for setting the public health agenda locally

Frontline delivery partners in health, education and planning roles

Private and third sector partners.

A national strategy for accident prevention

Berkeley Group

Safer by Design

L'Oréal

Safe@Work Safe@Home

A national strategy for accident prevention“Fundamentally, this strategy serves as a call to action for a step-change in the delivery

of accident prevention across England, recognising the links between accident prevention and other issues on the public health agenda and highlighting how

programmes that seek to reduce accidental injury can also support healthy activity and other indicators of wellbeing.”

Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell, chairman of the

National Accident Prevention Strategy Advisory Group

A national strategy for accident preventionFind out how to get involved in delivering the strategy at www.rospa.com/nationalstrategy or email campaigns@rospa.com

A national strategy for accident preventionDiscussion

What is the single most important thing that needs to happen “to achieve a step-change in the delivery of evidence-based accident prevention programmes across England, promoting safe and active lives and reducing the burden of serious accidental injury on society”

How do we reshape the conversation so that discussion around accident prevention is seen as enabling and not risk averse?

What are the key parts of the local government agenda that we need to link to?

Given our knowledge of impact of health inequalities on accidents, how do we better address this to reduce this impact?

How can we involve the private sector more in accident prevention, what are the benefits, and are there any barriers in achieving this?