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Recommendation 13
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The pandemic has had a negative impact on health inequalities and highlighted the crucial importance...
Conclusion
The pandemic has had a negative impact on health inequalities and highlighted the crucial importance of effective public health services in supporting local populations. Public health services are therefore vital allies in tackling the backlog, and we are surprised at the decision merely to maintain current public health grant funding levels.
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Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
Partially accept. The Government recognises the crucial importance of effective public health services in supporting local populations, and the negative impact that the pandemic has had on health inequalities. Public health services are vital in tackling the backlog, and this has been recognised through the decision to increase public health grant funding levels by £340 million in 2022/23, taking the total to £3.47 billion.