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** 17 March 2023
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** UK
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** Public health grant: Sector faces ‘significant challenges’ (#1)
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** ‘Shameful’ £500m cut to workforce and reform budgets (#2)
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** Link of the week
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** Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco - Europe (SRNT-E) conference 2023 (#5)
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** UK
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** Public health grant: Sector faces ‘significant challenges’
Councils “still face significant challenges” in the wake of the public health grant announcement, sector figures have said.
Grant allocations for local authorities in England will rise by 3.3% for 2023-24, the government announced on Tuesday afternoon (14 March).
In a written ministerial statement Neil O’Brien, primary care and health minister, revealed that funding will increase to £3.529bn this year. The overall funding package will deliver a real-terms increase of more than 5% over the next two years.
Last year details were published in early February and the sector has been lobbying the government about delays this year.
David Fothergill (Con), chairman of the Local Government Association’s (LGA) community wellbeing board has warned, said: “This settlement means councils still face significant challenges as they try to meet soaring demand for their services.
“At a time when NHS and social care pressures are greater than ever, vital sexual health, drug, alcohol and health visiting services cannot keep living a hand to mouth existence with insufficient resources to meet this demand and late announcements about funding.”
In a statement, the Association of Directors of Public Health (APDH) said: “The 5% increase includes additional burdens on public health finances including having to offset the pay pressures resulting from NHS pay awards.
“Public health teams have had years of effective cuts to funding, meaning that in spite of directors of public health’s best efforts, some services have had to be cut, and this will continue to be the case even though there is strong evidence for their impact and effectiveness.
“In order to provide public health measures that will equate to people living healthier, longer lives and reduce the burden on the NHS, we need to see a much larger increase to our budgets – today’s increase is simply not enough to make up for the years of cuts.”
Source: LGC, 15 March 2023
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** ‘Shameful’ £500m cut to workforce and reform budgets
The government is set to cut its planned spending for adult social care workforce, reform and integration by at least £550m, HSJ has learned.
Hundreds of millions will be cut from investment which was promised for improving social care workforce standards, increasing supported housing, and integrating care “into local health and care strategies”, several senior sources said.
The government’s social care white paper in December 2021 said there would be a total pot of £1.7bn “to improve social care in England, including at least £500m investment in the workforce”; on top of £3.6bn to introduce a cap on care costs, extend means testing, and move towards a “fair cost of care”.
The £3.6bn has already been cut, with last year’s spending review saying those measures would be delayed and the money redirected “to allow local authorities to provide more care packages”, but the £1.7bn for other improvement and reform was thought to be protected.
However, several well-placed officials told HSJ the £1.7bn was now set to be drastically cut as well, in plans due to be confirmed by ministers in the next few weeks.
It comes as integrated care systems and other local NHS leaders are increasingly raising the need for skills development of social care staffing to push up standards and attract staff; and underlining the need for supported housing models, with more people ending up relying on healthcare as a result of a lack of good care alternatives.
Source: HSJ, 17 March 2023
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** Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco - Europe (SRNT-E) conference 2023
SRNT-E is a scientific society whose mission is to stimulate the generation and dissemination of new knowledge concerning nicotine and tobacco with the ultimate goal of reducing the harms of tobacco and nicotine-containing products around the globe. Its focus is on work carried out on the European continent, to connect researchers, policy makers, advocates, clinicians and other relevant parties.
Its annual conference will take place in London from 11 to 13 September 2023 in Bush House on Aldwych. The call for abstract submissions is open (deadline 31 March). You can submit an abstraction here ([link removed]) .
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