Responding to the rise in NICs

This week, we have responded to the rise in employers’ National Insurance Contributions, by writing to the Guardian to highlight the impact it will have on public health services.

The letter, written by ADPH President, Greg Fell, is in response to an article outlining the extra strain on council budgets that the rise in employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs) will cause and in particular, the impact on adult and children’s social care services.

In it, Greg writes:

“There will also be a significant impact on public health services, including sexual health and addiction services, health visitors and school nursing. In England, these (and other) vital services are paid for by the public health grant, which is managed by directors of public health. While the NHS has quite rightly been given an exemption to the NIC increase, health services commissioned outside the NHS have not.”

Read Greg’s letter in full.