Government seems to have listened but not heard in reorganising public health

doi:10.1136/bmj.d5053

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Nigel Calvert, associate director of public health (health protection)1

¹Cumbria Primary Care Trust, Lonsdale Unit, Penrith Hospital, Penrith CA11 8HX, UK

nigel.calvert{at}mac.com

The government’s proposals for public health in England seem to have been put together on the back of a cigarette packet.1 The “listening exercise” was an opportunity for the flawed Healthy Lives, Healthy People to be improved,2 but advice offered by professionals has been largely ignored.3

Employing some staff on NHS terms and conditions …