Web-economic-crisis-health-systems-and-health-web

Country profiles of health system responses to the crisis | United Kingdom
517
Health promotion and prevention
England
• Responsibility for public health shifted from the NHS to local government,
together with a budget for this purpose, set at £5.45 billion for two years
(2013–2015).
Northern Ireland
• A Public Health Agency was established in 2009; it has had steady increases
in its annual budget from £42.8 million in 2010 to £50.7 million in 2012.