Taking public health out of the NHS made it easier for the health service to avoid thinking about prevention, a council chief executive has said.

Speaking after the Government said that scrapping NHS England would reduce duplication at the top of the health service, chief executive of Adur & Worthing Councils, Catherine Howe, said: ‘The NHS is stuck on its own hamster wheel and it's very difficult to shift them out of their delivery mindset. If we're going to genuinely take advantage of the change that's sitting around us then we need to find spaces where we can think together.