Public health experts fear the government's plans to reform public health could be a "nightmare" that will make it harder to respond to emergencies and increase health inequalities.
They widely criticised the proposed NHS reforms and suggested the new service would be more fragmented than at present. The vast majority also rejected one of the government's key reasons for implementing the Bill, improving care commissioning. These views were supported by the British Medical Association (BMA) which said the plans could cause problems when planning major events such as the next year's London Olympics. A survey of nearly 1,000 public health specialists conducted by the UK Faculty of Public Health (FPH) about the Health and Social Care Bill found that almost three-q...
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