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Healthcare comes to the community

In April 2013, responsibility for public health will transfer from the NHS to local authorities – but what are the implications and potential benefits of these changes?
Public health: Surrey takes first steps on road to responsibility

Councillors have brought 65 NHS staff into the town hall to manage public health. Kate McCann talks to the authority about its progress so far

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NHS reforms will affect public health data collection

Experts warn that Health and Social Care Act will make it more difficult to monitor health inequalities
Workforce planning and community skills are long term agendas

If community skills are to be conveyed to carers and volunteers, then care and health practitioners will benefit from skills development in adult education, leadership and business planning
Will directors of public health sink or swim?

Debate at our first Public Health Dialogue focused on the evolving role of directors of public health, as well as commissioning, accountability and inequality
Local government faces cultural battles with clinicians over public health

Conference hears councils will inherit historic difficulties when staff are transferred from the NHS to the town hall. Hannah Fearn reports
BMA calls for flexible roll out of NHS 111

British Medical Association urges health secretary to slow down implementation of non-emergency number

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Doctors consider further strike action over pensions

BMA says day's go-slow that affected thousands of patients sent 'a strong message that a fairer approach must be found'
Incarceration: when HIV infection does discriminate

Sadhbh Walshe: Given US prisons' elevated HIV/Aids rates, especially among African Americans, it serves public health to provide treatment
Breadline Britain Day Four: benefits, mental health, poverty

The psychological and financial impact of austerity and welfare reform on vulnerable citizens

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Public health: bridging the cultural faultlines

Planning has disengaged with public health, but evidence points to a link between fast food shops and local obesity. Oswin Baker writes
Pop music and crosswords: tools for council public health teams

As local government takes on responsibility for public health, officers can use popular culture to get the healthy message across. Mark Burns writes
I predict trouble ahead for public health

Moving public health to local government is a huge cultural shift, warns Dick Vinegar, the Patient from Hell
District councils and the battle for control of public health

There are limits to representation, argues Daria Kuznetsova. Not everyone with a local stake can sit on health and wellbeing boards
A plea to councils: give personalisation a chance

Fears are growing that hard pressed councils are diverting personalisation funds to prop up statutory services, writes Edward Davie

Public health dialogue

The Guardian Public Health Dialogue - Thursday 28 June

The Guardian's Public Health Dialogue offers a forum for debate and discussion with peers in public health
The Guardian's first Public Health Dialogue

Bringing together experts from the NHS, local and central government, charities, social enterprises and industry, the Guardian's series of Public Health Dialogue evening events will offer a forum for debate and discussion
Public Health Dialogue: mental health and wellbeing

Participants fear that third-sector services could miss the boat when it comes to health and wellbeing boards
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Public Health Dialogue: notes on obesity and healthy eating

This roundtable debate explored how exercise is just as important as healthy eating
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Public Health Dialogue: notes on the problems older people face

A roundtable debate on older people argued responses need to be tailored to the needs of older people at a neighbourhood level
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Public Health Dialogue: notes on changing attitudes towards alcohol

What can alcohol campaigns learn from smoking campaigns? Participants discussed changing attitudes towards alcohol abuse
Public Health Dialogue: prevention and wellbeing

What role will industry play in the future of public health? One roundtable explored this and prevention
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