The proposals, outlined in the White Paper Healthy Lives Healthy People: Update and Way Forward, will see local authorities take over the role of Primary Care Trusts in commissioning public health workers in their area from April 2013.
In the shake-up of public health services, local authorities would be given additional ring-fenced funding to spend on commissioning health visitors and school nurses to work in their community when needed.
The move is designed to ‘empower local governments to shape their own approach to addressing local needs’, as the Government believes that local authorities are better placed to tackle health issues in their own community.
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