Business leaders calling for more focus on better health- Carlisle News & Star 28th August 2008

SENIOR leaders in the North West have welcomed a report calling on the NHS to focus more on promoting good health and wellbeing and the prevention of ill-health. Latest figures estimate that the £3 billion economic gap between the North West and England as a whole is caused by worklessness. With 9% (400,000) of the working age population on incapacity benefit, largely for preventable or manageable conditions.

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