Thames Valley Strategic Clinical Networks and Clinical Senate. Population Health Report

‘Population health’ has emerged as a widely used phrase in relation to the NHS Integrated Care Systems (ICS) and Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs).
A commonly agreed definition is currently being developed by NHS England in collaboration with Public Health England.
We asked our colleagues across the Thames Valley “What do you understand ‘population health’ to mean?” and “What population do you refer to in your course of work?”; their views were varied, and spanned the broad spectrum of population health systems.
This brochure seeks to support a shared understanding of the key approaches to population health