Department of Health: Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health: Acheson Report:...

JA 634

1985-2011

This series contains files relating to the Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health (Acheson Report), Public Health Inquiry Sub-Committee on Prevention, Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases and Surveillance on Non-Communicable Diseases, Health care workers infected with Blood Borne Viruses (BBVs), Infectious disease control review of legislation, Health of the Nation papers on numerous health issues (including cancer, HIV, smoking and mental illness)

This series is arranged in file reference order (within each transfer).

HDC file series

Public Record(s)

English

• Department of Health, 1988-1988
• Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988

964 file(s)

Open unless otherwise stated

From 2019 Department of Health and Social Care

Topics

Welfare

Labour

Mental illness

Disease

Prefix noted as in use by File Office 645 in 1994. Prefix transferred to File Office 948 in 1999 and notified as closed by branch in 2000

Series is accruing.

The Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health was set up in July 1997 and was chaired by Sir Donald Acheson, with the following terms of reference: to moderate a Department of Health review of the latest available information on inequalities of Health, using data from the Office for National Statistics, the Department of Health and elsewhereto identify priority areas for future policy development to report to the Secretary of State for Health and publish a report to aid the development of a new strategy for health.

The review focused on three crucial areas: evaluation of policies likely to impact health, prioritisation of the health of families and children, and a reduction of income inequalities, improving the living standards of poor households.