Your essay should critically analyse one specific health policy relating to a long term condition (LTC) and its influences on healthcare. Demonstrate an understanding of your chosen long term condition, the underlying patho-physiology and the psycho social impact of that condition on the patient and their family.

Chosen policy = healthy lives, healthy people: a call to action on obesity in England (2011, the client thinks).
** chosen long term condition = diabetes with specific reference to obesity, i.e. obesity induced diabetes
** please note this should be related to nursing in the community and specific emphasis on role of the nurse
** furthermore, lecturer said we could critique this policy by relating to previous ones to see if there’s been any improvements (the policy before this was : healthy lives, healthy people (2010).

For this, the client would you to concentrate on any one of these:

1. the financial aspect- resourced- based on ring-fenced funding, with incentives to improve
2. addressing the root causes of ill health
3. wider factors influencing health, well being and health inequalities)**

The theoretical basis for implementation in practice, the effectiveness of pilot projects or previous examples of innovative and good practice should be explored.