1/6. Four recent pieces on #publichealth #funding and #spending of interest and worth thinking about - it's all a bit of a mess. See thread 👇
2/6. Today, from @IPPR, looking at cuts to the public health grant > fallen most on poorest areas (ironically, this is most probably a result of cuts being split 'equally' as opposed to according to needs - but unclear since report not yet on website) theguardian.com/society/2019/n…
3/6. But, it is still not clear what has happened to the promised (1%) real-terms increase in the public health grant in 2020-21, with concerns it will be swallowed by staffing costs and additional burdens (£paywall) hsj.co.uk/public-health/…
4/6. And, meanwhile STPs and ICSs are worried that the cuts to local government public health will undermine their own attempts at prevention and integration (£paywall) hsj.co.uk/public-health/…
5/6. Whilst elsewhere, the NHS is taking local government to court in order to be exempted from business rates - which on curren plans are due to be the main funding source for local government public health in future bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
6/6. Finally, given the election there is likely to be a delay to the local government finance settlement. If that transpires, this will give local government less time than it usually has to plan for the future, for public health and other services.
7/6(!) - the @ippr blog where the analysis sits for the guardian piece earlier in the thread above is now on the website ippr.org/blog/public-he…
