Public health directors have made a minimum price on alcohol their top priority ahead of the general election.
The UK Faculty of Public Health and the Royal Society for Public Health have made a minimum price of 50p per unit top priority in their joint public health manifesto. In a separate survey of 97 public health directors, by the Association of Directors of Public Health, 83 per cent said lobbying for a minimum price was their top priority ahead of the election.
Public health doctors have raised at least one cheer for the new government’s plans to ban supermarkets from selling cheap alcohol as a loss leader.
Health service capital budgets will be held flat in real terms until the end of the decade, the government has confirmed.
Productivity in the NHS remains markedly below pre-pandemic levels, while trusts are faced with growing demand and increased financial pressure. Public satisfaction has hit historic lows, yet most trusts still lack a clear view of where consultant time is going – and where it’s being lost. In this article, BCG ...
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