Helen Salisbury , GP Oxford helen.salisbury{at}phc.ox.ac.ukFollow Helen on Twitter: @HelenRSalisbury“Show me your budget, and then I’ll know what you care about.”1 This quote is from Duncan Selbie, erstwhile head of Public Health England, when addressing the covid inquiry. Ending this tax would mean a £7bn reduction in government revenue. If our economy has this amount of money to spare, there are surely other priorities that should be considered. In thinking about the spare £7bn, perhaps we should also be focusing upstream on the wider social and commercial determinants of health. Footnotes Competing interests: See www.bmj.com/about-bmj/freelance-contributorsProvenance and peer review: Commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.

Source: The Times July 18, 2023 09:11 UTC