Ministers must reverse damaging cuts to “deteriorating” public health services, says BMA

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Public health services in England are deteriorating and are at risk of further decline unless budget cuts worth £550m (€643m; $723m) in real terms since 2015-16 are reversed, the BMA has warned.\n\nThe government must commit to “increased and sustained” spending on public health through its upcoming green paper on preventive healthcare—which is expected to be published this year—and the autumn spending review, it says in a new report.1\n\nOver the past three years, budgets for …