The King’s Fund has published an analysis of the balance of resources going to public health and declared that “too many local government services that affect the public’s health are facing death by a thousand cuts”.
The research looks at average expenditure by local authorities on public health over the past five years and concludes that that: “when it comes to funding services that impact on the public’s health, central government’s actions show that it is not affording public health the same priority as the NHS.”