The Spending Review and public health: the need for certainty in the shorter term and social value in the longer

The Spending Review and public health: the need for certainty in the shorter term and social value in the longer The Spending Review this autumn comes at a critical point in the pandemic, and in the economic cycle that has been rent asunder by it. This means the Spending Review has to do two things if it is to support public health: in the short term it must provide much greater certainty for critical budgets, and in the long term it must expect more from departments on social value creation and do all it can to protect against poverty and long-term unemployment. The King's Fund