With public health transferring to local government from 1 April, a well-attended workshop at The MJ Future Forum looked at how one county area has been handling the changes.

Nottinghamshire CC is working with its districts, with Nottingham City Council and with its six clinical commissioning groups while the city and county are sharing the costs of a director of public health. Some 30 NHS staff transferred to the city with a budget of £27m and 60 staff to the county with a budget of £35m. The figure sounds substantial but for the county it represents under 10% of its annual £590m budget.