If empowered, councils can achieve much more on public health

By Nathan Elvery | 09 April 2019

‘Public health has a high profile in the county council…it was the forgotten corner of the NHS.’

This quote, from a fellow chief executive interviewed in Shared Intelligence’s recent report for the County Councils’ Network, examining the transfer of public health to local government, perfectly encapsulates the value of the service being locally-led.

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