Patients who no longer need urgent hospital treatment will be helped to return home, making at least 30,000 beds available during the coronavirus outbreak, after councils received £1.6 billion in extra funding.
As partygoers prepared for the busiest night of the year on New Year’s Eve, the LGA issued safety advice warning people to avoid cheap and dangerous counterfeit alcohol being sold by rogue retailers.
Local government has played a key role in helping reduce the number of new diagnoses of HIV – and the roll-out of PrEP could help us reduce infection further
The stunning improvements in health over the past two decades are built on a strong foundation of research.
Looking back over 30 years of work in a variety of roles, I can honestly say that work has generally been good for me. So why isn’t everyone feeling the same?
The most vulnerable rough sleepers need effective and integrated services tailored to their needs to help them get off the streets.
The Government’s Green Paper on preventing ill-health is a “missed opportunity” to make the most of councils’ public health role and expertise, the LGA has said.