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Public health workforce should be 'massively expanded'

The workforce supporting public health should be ‘massively expanded’ to include sales assistants, customer service workers and others, a new report has argued.

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By Dan Peters | 21 July 2015

The workforce supporting public health should be ‘massively expanded' to include sales assistants, customer service workers and others, a new report has argued.

Today's report by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) comes weeks after chancellor George Osborne announced a £200m cut to local authorities' £3.2bn grant.

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