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Saving money by appointing joint, junior or inexperienced leaders will undermine local public health Giving responsibility for public health to local authorities, together with a ring-fenced budget to manage it, is obviously the right thing to do. Councils used to have a role in health back in the 1970s;...
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Public health settlement is more generous than expected but basing allocations on historic spend will leave some councils out of pocket There has been both excitement and anxiety around the transfer of public health to local government this month. Unfortunately the excitement has mainly been in local...
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The transfer of responsibilty for public health to local government is a great opportunity, but councils must pay it the attention it is due Amid the cuts and redundancies, local government's new responsibility for public health is a great opportunity. While public health is hardly new territory...
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Changes to public health will increase the professional profile of public health and bring new career paths England's directors of public health now have a new employer: responsibility for the administration of public has been transferred from the NHS to local councils. The move, which was part of...
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Read the advice of our expert panel on how local authorities can prepare for taking on responsbility for public health next month. Share your ideas in the comments thread Edward Davie is a Lambeth councillor and chair of the borough's health scrutiny committee What can be done to prepare? Councils...
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Join our expert panel to find out how local authorities are preparing to take responsibility for public health next month. Debate the issues live from 12pm on Wednesday 13 March After months of groundwork changes to the way public health is administered in Britain are just around the corner. From April...
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Redefining care needs to save money is a worrying trend. This week our secret council officer shares their experience We all know that cash-strapped local authorities are making qualification for care funding ever more stringent, but what about one of their other duties: that of funding care and support...
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To grasp the opportunities of the return of public health, we need district action, says policy officer James Maker For those who have been involved in the public health transition, it is an exciting yet challenging time. We all know that to ensure the success of the reforms, system change needs to go...
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There's much to commend Andy Burnham's vision, but sharing the cash pool won't achieve integration – it's a culture thing If there is one lesson that can be drawn from Andrew Lansley's health reforms, it is that anyone proposing a major shakeup of the NHS should be required to provide...
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Local government could find efficiencies by buying construction, care and waste services together, but what about the rest of the public sector? Some weeks ago I argued that local authorities are their own worst enemies. Yet again they are being given a tough financial settlement, a further reduction...
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Government must hand control of health to councils if it wants the results communities desperately need to see The challenges facing local government in 2013 are not too dissimilar to the drivers behind the first public health act in 1848. The aim then was to tackle extreme vulnerability as well as enabling...
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Peter Holbrook writes about the findings and ambitions of Social Enterprise UK's new report, the Shadow State Decades of outsourcing by successive governments now means that £82bn, a third of spending on public sector commissioning and procurement, is spent with independent providers. Accelerated...
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Public Health England will support local government and the NHS by providing expert knowledge, research and know-how Further improvements to our nation's health can only become a reality through localism. As a population we are getting older and increasingly suffering from chronic disease, and despite...
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Councillors' discomfort around issues such as sexual health sparks fear that services could be reduced Local government efforts to improve public health could be undermined by councillors who refuse to promote important but 'difficult' messages, such as talking about condoms and safe sex...
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New local government public health briefings from Nice set out what interventions work best to keep people healthy Local government is preparing to take on a wider remit for public health from April next year, so the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), which oversees clinical...
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