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DEVOLUTION

Delivering health and devo

Cheshire and Merseyside are teaming up with local partners – and with Sir Michael Marmot and the Institute of Health Equity – to show how devolution can hardwire health equity into every local decision, say Steve Rotheram and Cllr Louise Gittins.

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As regional leaders, we are often asked what devolution really means in practice. For us, it is about more than shifting powers from Whitehall to communities. It is about improving people's lives. And there is no clearer measure of success than health.

The reality is that across Cheshire and Merseyside, people's health and life chances still depend too much on where they live.

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