COVID-19 has brought the UK’s health policy to the forefront of public consciousness. Although recent conservative governments have sought to pursue a ‘prevention agenda’ 1 in order to shift public understanding of the National Health Service as consisting solely of a ‘National Hospital Service’, 2 the state’s response to the pandemic has seemed reactive and ad hoc. Given that no vaccine is available at the time of writing and that treatment is, at this stage, experimental, there is good reason to consider alternative means of promoting health. In that context, Laura Webber and colleagues 3 have called for a […]
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