'Real change in public health will be made more difficult if service transfers are delayed'

Doctor speaking to young girl patient

The positive steps in transferring public health services to local control will be marred by the delay of children’s services until 2015 under recent government proposals. Graham Burgess argues the public health strategy needs more coherence if local commissioning plans are not to be undermined.

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