How partners bring change

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The UK government is keen to encourage a multi-agency approach to health care provision. The Life Project in the Wirral, England, which has been running for some years already, is being quoted by the government as an example of how successful the multi-agency approach can be. It has brought together the local health authority and the borough council, and aims to recoup its costs by encouraging a cut in the number of operations and in the use of prescription drugs. Initiatives have included encouraging local people to take more exercise, thus reducing the burden on health services.

Public health administration

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Schools close as councils rationalise

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The UK Dept for Education and Employment is keen to eliminate surplus school places and deal with schools that have been assessed to be teaching at below acceptable standards. This means that the future of more than 2,500 schools is in doubt. In some major urban areas, local councils may choose to shut down some schools and build a smaller number of larger schools. However, in other areas school closures will be limited by the need to restrict the distances children have to travel. School sites on poor housing estates would in any case not be very attractive to developers.

Elementary and secondary schools, Elementary & Secondary Schools, Management, Education, School buildings

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Clean bill of health

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The UK's new Labour government would have been better advised to create a ministry of environmental health, rather than appointing a public health minister, according to Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Chief Executive Mick Cooke. This organization, which represents environmental health officers in local government, accepts that it is important to establish a focus for public health, but would welcome a broader approach. Cooke believes that it is vital that environmental health officers continue to work for councils.

Interview, Public health, Cooke, Mick

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