Council to take over health services in the town

11:00am Friday 22nd March 2013 in News

WARRINGTON Borough Council will soon be taking over public health services in the town.

From April 1, the council will be in charge of addressing causes of ill-health and lead on promoting healthy lifestyles in the town.

The move is part of the government’s health service reforms and means the team will have a £10m budget to commission services such as sexual health advice, cancer screening programmes and tobacco control.

Clr Pat Wright, executive board member for health, wellbeing and adult social care, said: “Many of our aims and aspirations are the same so it makes sense to pool resources and knowledge for the benefit of the people of Warrington to ensure they lead long, healthy and happy lives.”

Comments(6)

SAC_in_Warrington says...
11:41am Fri 22 Mar 13

Oh no, not another area for Warrington Unitary Authority to mess up!

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moleogod says...
11:54am Fri 22 Mar 13

ok waiting for the we most strip the £10 million budget to save and put the saving in our pay packet as a reward for the saving measures

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WAFiver says...
12:05pm Fri 22 Mar 13

This does not seem like a good idea...

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Freeborn John says...
12:49pm Fri 22 Mar 13

In line with the councils highly successful bin collection policy, health advice will be available once a fortnight...

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chunkymunky says...
3:02pm Fri 22 Mar 13

nothing will change, all the same staff who originally sat under warrington PCT, then moved into NHS warrington and now the public health section are moving under local authority like every other area!

Is this even a story? these proposals were approved 2 years ago by public health england for public health to be allighned with the main social care provider!!

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Lakeland says...
7:20pm Fri 22 Mar 13

This is the worst possible news for Warrington residents.

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