Thanks Keith!

We can now dispense with the services of 700+ consultants in public health. As these are well paid consultant doctors , the savings to The NHS (and local government as they take on the public health agenda) will be huge. Think of all the support staff, never mind the surveillance role of health visitors.

Stop referring to an excellent annual précis as being the government view. It is used in conjunction with other data for commissioning and planning of services and revised versions eventually inform ONS and WHO.

I used this as an example of your "teacher said so" approach to anything and everything. One reason why we depend do much on analysing health statistics from myriad angles is that it can only be guidance. Updated historical returns are fed almost daily. The HIV update I gave last month for that period gas already been revised twice by PHE, let alone local data for the budgeting bun fights starting next week.

Prat.