- 21/02/2025
- Posted by: Amanda Hack MP
- Category: News
As part of the plan to improve health outcomes, public health services will be given more money to deliver prevention programmes, tailored to their residents.
Amanda Hack MP has welcomed an increase in funding for public health services in Leicestershire, which is part of a £200 million national funding boost to the Public Health Grant. This represents the largest real-terms increase after nearly a decade of reduced spending under the previous government.
Leicestershire County Council is set to receive nearly £30 million to support essential health services, ranging from smoking cessation to children’s health, and to help fund family and school nurses, sexual health clinics, and other health services.
Amanda Hack said:
“As a passionate advocate for Public Health, and a county councillor who previously sat on the Health Scrutiny Committee for 5 years, I am delighted that we are continuing to fulfil our promise to enhance health outcomes for people across Leicestershire as part of our plan for change.
We must continue working together to deliver increased prevention-based support. This will give people better access to services and relieve pressure on more traditional care settings, enabling those who need the support of GPs or consultants to access those services. This funding will help drive key health initiatives in our community, continuing the move away from cure-lead care to preventing people from falling into ill health in the first place.
Having already met with many of our local GP practises and the North West Leicestershire GP Federation, I will continue working closely with our health teams to enhance services, continue cutting waiting lists, and improve the health of local people.”
The Government has been running a national conversation to help build a health service fit for the future and shape a new 10 Year Health Plan for England. The plan will set out how to focus on preventing sickness, not just treating it, with this investment supporting that aim.
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From mid-April, local authorities will begin receiving their share of the government’s record £1.6 billion highway maintenance funding, which includes an additional £500 million, enough to fill 7 million potholes annually!
For the first time, Leicestershire County Council must publish its spending, the number of potholes filled, the percentage of our roads in what condition, and how it is minimising street works disruption.
Also today, the Transport Secretary has announced £4.8 billion in funding for 2025/26 for National Highways to implement essential road projects and upkeep motorways and key A-roads.
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Christ can anyone ever be happy? Brilliant news for the funding. Please make sure its spent well and thought is taken on if a pot hole needs filling or the replacement of a road. Make the 1.6 mean something and not need doing again!
If the MPs had a pay cut and paid for their own expenses instead of targeting the disabled and the working people then you might have enough money to pay for the pot holes, and probably more defence
I could cope with the pot holes if the money was better spent on knife crime and the boats , if you stopped the boats and deported the illegal immigrants then you could save on the millions your spending on hotels. It is that SIMPLE.
Our local health teams are working incredibly hard to ease the waiting lists and ensure everyone gets the care they deserve. I'm pleased that they have fallen again for the fifth month in a row and are down by nearly 200,000 since we were elected.
While there is still work to do, this is real progress and a step in the right direction.
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Please can you tell us what day and hour of the week this generally is?
My surgery has just been cancelled again, any one can pluck numbers out of the air.
I'm still waiting & have another 6 months. My son is still on a 3-4 year ADHD diagnosis waiting list...this should have been done 20 years ago 🤬
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