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Middlesbrough Council no doubt would also use the money on demolishing more homes

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Most money coming to my local council goes into demolishing good houses, bribing property developers and filling the pockets of the good councillors themselves.

Cancer screening 'risks being a casualty of NHS reform’
Councils given public health funds by Lansley will spend it on potholes instead, experts warn .
Public health programmes could be “devastated” by the Government’s controversial reform of the NHS, as councils take money set aside for much-needed projects, doctors have warned.
Services under threat include immunisation programmes, cancer screening, mental health, tobacco control and smoking cessation, a report said.
Public health experts said the service would become fragmented and confused and called for the Health and Social Care Bill to be withdrawn.
Under the reforms, responsibility for much of public health will pass to local authorities. But they are already planning on spending the funds on other things because they are facing budget cuts, it was warned. The Public Health for the NHS network, which is made up of former presidents of the Faculty of Public Health and more than 50 directors of public health, say commissioning should remain within the NHS.
Prof Martin McKee, professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that although Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, had said that public health funding would be ring-fenced it was difficult to ensure in practice.
He said councils were already planning to use public health funds
to fix roads on the basis that potholes are a hazard.
Others want to use the money to pay for insulation subsidies because cold, damp homes make people ill. “This is what will happen when the budgets are transferred, anything that is remotely connected to health is being used to take the money. There will be nothing left for core public health work.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/91226 ... eform.html