RELEVANT NEWS

Hot off the press- Professor Lynne Cox on the APPG for Longevity’s Strategic Advisory Group is co-leading the network supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Medical Research Council (MRC) to translate findings into future policy, public health and new therapies. Read more here.

‘Open Banking’ moves to health with ‘Open Life’ to address public concerns over commercial use of personal health-relevant data. The consent-based trustworthy framework, first introduced in The Lancet, was developed with contributions from over 100 experts and organisations including Health Foundation, NHSX, Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, Ada Lovelace Institute, National Data Guardian, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities and the CBI. Its goal is to create the enabling conditions for public and private sector actors to share data for public benefit while unlocking innovation to increase healthy life expectancy by 5 years while minimising health inequalities (‘HLE+5’).

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Longevity.Technology

The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed how inadequately prepared Britain was for a virus that is most severe for the least healthy in our society. The APPG calls for more concerted action, building on the recommendations of the APPG report, to address '… — The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed how inadequately prepared Britain was for a virus that is most severe for the least healthy in our society. The APPG calls for more concerted action, building on the recommendations of the APPG report, to address 'our unhealthy nation' as published in the comment piece published on 8 December in *Lancet Healthy Longevity*

Lancet

Preventative health is vital to build up health and economic resilience. Leaders have an opportunity to provide healthier outcomes for all. The pandemic has highlighted the power of technology to avoid and tackle chronic diseases.

World Economic Forum

,,,,the fallout from the pandemic threatens to expose—and widen—inequality in brutal fashion. As Torsten Bell of the Resolution Foundation, a think-tank, puts it, “the virus doesn’t discriminate between people but the accompanying economic shock cer… — ,,,,the fallout from the pandemic threatens to expose—and widen—inequality in brutal fashion. As Torsten Bell of the Resolution Foundation, a think-tank, puts it, “the virus doesn’t discriminate between people but the accompanying economic shock certainly does.” Before covid-19 hit, Boris Johnson’s plan was to “level up” poorer communities. The opposite is happening. Young and old, north and south, and rich and poor all have markedly different capacities to bear the burden of lockdown, social isolation and a sharp drop in economic activity

The Economist

The important role of good nutrition in preventative health and healthy ageing was a theme running through the four Round Tables for the Business Coalition for Healthier Longer Lives run in May by the APPG for Longevity (cited in this article).

The All-Party Parliamentary Group is delighted to welcome PAI Health as our official partner. See press release here.

World Economic Forum

Launch Press

Some coverage from The Health of the Nation launch on 12th February

Matt+Hancock.jpg — Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, Secretary of State for Health and Care

Presents keynote speech supporting the All Party Parliamentary Group’s report, Health of the Nation: A Strategy for Healthier Longer Lives

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Radio 4 Interview 12 February

Our chair @DamianGreen is interviewed by Justin Webb about our report #TheHealthoftheNation, our strategy for #HealthierLongerLives on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today news programme.

NEWS RELEASE

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Guardian image.jpg — Health inequality greater than previously thought, report finds

In the poorest areas women are getting their first long-term illness at just 47 and men at 49

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**NHS uses fitness app to pay patients to avoid diabetes- with APPG Population & Public Health Chair, Professor Richard Barker**

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Tina Woods shares the journey of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity in devising The Health of the Nation: A Strategy for Healthier Longer Lives at the National Academy of Medicine’s event in Singapore 3-4 February on ‘National Health and Care Systems for Healthy Longevity

**New Chief Medical Officer warns NHS struggling to cope with number of elderly patients**

**APPG for Longevity aims for parity in healthspan AND lifespan**

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Blog contributions from our partners

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity, 12 February: Ensuring healthier and longer lives: focusing on place and social determinants

Sustrans, 12 February: How walking and cycling can help to increase healthy life expectancy

Health Lumen, 13 February: The Health of the Nation – A Strategy for Healthier Longer Lives

King’s College London, 19 February: Health Secretary speaks at launch of new ageing strategy

KSS AHSN, 20 February: The Health of the Nation

Future Care Capital, 18 February: The Marmot Review, longevity and a call to action

Dave Buck, The King’s Fund, 11 March: Responding to the evidence on inequalities in health: what's needed now?

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APPG Launch

The APPG for Longevity was launched on 7 May 2019

“One of the paradoxes of a world where the speed of change is accelerating is that politicians need more than ever to think long-term. We can all see the challenges and opportunities of increased longevity, but public policy needs to be shifted in many areas to respond to the new needs created. The APPG has started to move the debate in that direction.”

— Rt Hon Damian Green MP, APPG Chair

“What’s truly impressive is that so many recognise how much this matters to individuals, to our society and to social justice – as well as to our economy and the sustainability of our public services. We’re delighted that so many people and organisations are bringing their skills and experience to work with us to achieve our goal - better, happier, healthier lives for all.”

— A Lord Filkin CBE, chair of the Strategic Advisory Board of the APPG for Longevity

Progress at Pace

Our APPG members tell us how much has been achieved in 6 months since the APPG Launch…..

Rt Hon Damian Green MP

Sir Muir Gray, Advisory Board Member, APPG Longevity

Anna Dixon, CEO, Centre for Ageing Better

Sir Mark Caulfield, Chief Scientific Officer, Genomics England

John Godfrey, Legal & General

Dr Lynne Cox

Dr Caroline Cake, Chief Operating Officer, HDRUK

Laetitia Cailleteau, Managing Director & Emerging Growth MD, Accenture

Tina Woods, Director, APPG for Longevity

Eric Kihlstrom, Head of Industry Collaboration, Longevity International

Professor Richard Barker OBE, APPG Advisory Board Member

The Big Middle

The APPG for Longevity is proud to support Susan Flory’s free-range podcast of provocative perspectives on the big issues of longer, healthy midlife from the world’s smartest thinkers, innovators and game-changers. Stereotypes are smashed, mindsets are moved in interviews on all aspects of the longevity revolution redefining life as we know it. We’re not just living longer, we’re ageing differently. Gift.
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NEWS

People Are Living Longer, But Not Better—A New Social Contract Is Needed

Forbes

‘Shortchanged: Why British Life Expectancy Has Stalled’

New York Times

Falling Life Expectancy Becoming The 'Climate Change' Of Health

Forbes

'Work was what she lived for': Health Secretary Matt Hancock reveals his grandmother FORGED a birth certificate and passport to take 10 years off her age so she did not have to retire at 60

Daily Mail