UK must move towards disease prevention to save economy and NHS, says expert

Personalised pre-NHS' could stop onset of disease and offer health checks in places people live, work and socialise

• Why preventing long-term sickness in the UK is an economic necessity

The creation of a pre-NHS" focusing on preventive healthcare could unlock billionsfor the UK within two decades, according to the head of a taskforce investigating radical new improvements to the nation's wellbeing.

Prof John Deanfield, the first-ever government champion for personalised prevention, has concluded that a parallel health service is required to save an NHS struggling to heal an increasingly unhealthy public.