Focus: Responsibility Deal gets off to a shaky start
By: Ben Cooper | 25 March 2011
The UK government's Public Health Responsibility Deal was greeted sceptically by many campaigners when it was first unveiled last year. The announcement of the pledges themselves and the decision by the British Heart Foundation and Diabetes UK not to endorse the Deal, Ben Cooper writes, have done little to dispel the air of cynicism that surrounds the policy.
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The UK government's Public Health Responsibility Deal was greeted sceptically by many campaigners when it was first unveiled last year. The announcement of the pledges themselves and the decision by the British Heart Foundation and Diabetes UK not to endorse the Deal, Ben Cooper writes, have done little to dispel the air of cynicism that surrounds the policy.
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