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Last Updated: Friday, 19 November, 2004, 13:23 GMT
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88 areas piloting health schemes
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Ministers have identified 88 primary care trusts to pilot public health initiatives on the back of this week's White Paper.
The 200-page policy document sets out how the government is planning to combat health problems associated with obesity, smoking, drinking and mental and sexual health.
More than £1bn has been earmarked for public health over the next three years.
Listed below are the 88 pilots which will trial schemes from stop smoking services to health trainers:
Gateshead
Newcastle
North Tyneside
South Tyneside
Sunderland Teaching
Northumberland Care Trust
Wansbeck
Hartlepool
Middlesbrough
Langbaurgh
North Tees
Durham and Chester-le-Street
Derwentside
Easington
Sedgefield
Durham Dales
Blackburn with Darwen
Blackpool
Morecambe Bay
Eden Valley
Carlisle and District
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale
Hyndburn and Ribble Valley
Preston
Bolton
Bury
South Manchester
Central Manchester
North Manchester
Oldham
Rochdale
Heywood and Middleton
Salford
Tameside and Glossop
Ashton, Leigh and Wigan
Knowsley
North Liverpool
Central Liverpool
South Liverpool
St Helens
Bebington and West Wirral
Birkenhead and Wallasey
Halton
Warrington
Eastern Hull
West Hull
North East Lincolnshire
Airedale
Bradford City
Bradford South and West
North Bradford
Eastern Wakefield
Wakefield West
Barnsley
Doncaster Central
Doncaster East
Doncaster West
Rotherham
Nottingham City
North Eastern Derbyshire
West Lincolnshire
Leicester City West
Eastern Leicester
Northamptonshire Heartlands
North Stoke
South Stoke
Burntwood, Lichfield and Tamworth
South Birmingham
North Birmingham
Heart of Birmingham Teaching
Eastern Birmingham
Oldbury and Smethwick
Rowley Regis and Tipton
Wednesbury and West Bromwich
Walsall Teaching
Wolverhampton City
Coventry
North Warwickshire
Hammersmith and Fulham
Haringey
Islington
Barking and Dagenham
City and Hackney
Newham
Tower Hamlets
Greenwich
Lambeth
Lewisham
Southwark
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