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LGA calls for public health budget boost

By Lee Peart 05 November 2025

Local authority leaders are urging the Government to make significant public health funding commitments in the Autumn Budget to help deliver the ‘healthiest generation of children’.

PUBLIC HEALTH

Campaign launched to boost children's physical activity

By Lee Peart 03 November 2025

A Government campaign has been launched to boost children’s activity this winter.

WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL

Strategic partner

By Lee Peart 13 October 2025

Director of public health for Worcestershire, Professor Lisa McNally, explains how public health teams can be an indispensable strategic partner in the delivery of neighbourhood health.

PUBLIC HEALTH

Wider public health workforce will 'face shortages' without action

By Liz Wells 06 October 2025

The Royal Society of Public Health has revealed that professions such as pest control, food safety, and environmental health are facing recruitment and retention challenges that could 'pose signifi...

PREVENTION

Tooth decay leading cause of hospital admissions among children

By Lee Peart 25 September 2025

Tooth outpaces other common childhood conditions, including acute tonsillitis, as the leading cause of hospital admissions among 5 to 9 year olds in England, new research has found.

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Heavy drinkers 'more likely' to buy no/lo alcohol drinks

By Liz Wells 24 September 2025

People who drink at ‘risky’ levels are more likely to consume so-called no/lo alcohol drinks, new research reveals.

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Streeting vows to take on food and drink industry 'vested interests'

By Lee Peart 10 September 2025

Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has vowed to take on ‘vested interests’ in the food, alcohol and tobacco industries.

PREVENTION

Record numbers benefit from Type 2 diabetes initiative

By Lee Peart 27 May 2025

A record 166,360 more adults in England benefit from an NHS initiative designed to prevent them developing Type 2 diabetes.

LGA

Bridging the health inequality gap

By Lee Peart 07 April 2025

Cllr Louise Gittins says that with the gap in healthy life expectancy between the richest and poorest areas at almost 20 years, one of her priorities as chair of the LGA is to look at how it can be...

PUBLIC HEALTH