-
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...
Posted to
News
by
Healthcare Network | guardian.co.uk
on
Sat, Mar 16 2013
Filed under:
Filed under: health, Public Health, Guardian Professional, Society, Local government, Local government network, Practice, Localism, Q&As, Public service reform
-
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...
Posted to
News
by
Healthcare Network | guardian.co.uk
on
Mon, Mar 11 2013
Filed under:
Filed under: Public Health, Guardian Professional, Social care, Society, Local government, Local government network, Practice, Localism, Service delivery, Q&As
-
MPs should be congratulated for talking about mental health, but from 2012 it will fall to councils MPs 'outing' their mental health problems recently grabbed headlines , but it will be councillors who will take up new responsibilities in this area from next April. As well as responsibility for...
Posted to
News
by
Healthcare Network | guardian.co.uk
on
Wed, Aug 15 2012
Filed under:
Filed under: Public Health, Guardian Professional, Mental health, Editorial, Society, Local government, Local government network, Local government network blog, Localism, democracy, Service delivery, Cities
-
Councillors have brought 65 NHS staff into the town hall to manage public health. We talk to the authority about its progress As councils prepare to take responsibility for the health and wellbeing of their communities for the first time since the 1970s, preventative health is emerging as the focal point...
Posted to
News
by
Healthcare Network | guardian.co.uk
on
Thu, Jun 14 2012
Filed under:
Filed under: health, Public Health, Health Policy, Healthcare Network, Guardian Professional, Blogposts, Features, finance, Society, Local government, Local government network, Local economies, Localism
-
As they take responsibility for public health, can councils use popular culture to get the healthy message across? "We are enemy of the people. The problem is that we come across as spoilsports, telling people to stop doing things," said Fiona Adshead, deputy chief medical officer back in 2006...
Posted to
News
by
Healthcare Network | guardian.co.uk
on
Mon, Apr 30 2012
Filed under:
Filed under: health, Public Health, Healthcare Network, Guardian Professional, Blogposts, Society, Local government, Local government network, Practice, Local government network blog, Professional development, Localism, Service delivery
-
Fears are growing that hard-pressed councils are diverting personalisation funds to prop up statutory services Under personalisation and the NHS Personal Health Budget scheme, service users are allocated a budget to commission their own services rather than passively accept what a local authority provides...
Posted to
News
by
Healthcare Network | guardian.co.uk
on
Mon, Apr 16 2012
Filed under:
Filed under: health, Public Health, Health Policy, Healthcare Network, Guardian Professional, Blogposts, Policy, finance, Society, Local government network, Local government network blog, Local economies, Localism, Service delivery