Damaging Tory cuts to obesity and cancer prevention budgets will cost £ 3.2bn to reverse, report warns

It will cost at least £ 3.2bn a year to reverse damaging Tory austerity cuts to health budgets for curbing childhood obesity and smoking rates, a major new report has warned.

A report by the Health Foundation think tank has criticized the government for "short sighted and irresponsible".

Public health budgets, which have been cut by almost a quarter (23.5 per cent) between 2014/15 and 2019/20.

This amounts to a £ 700m-a-year rate in the funding council programs to help people live in the province.

The cuts have been disproportionately heavy in the most deprived areas, the report is not necessarily reduced to NHS services.

Type 2 diabetes epidemics – which the health service spends 10 per cent of its budget treatment – and it also funds things like cancer screening programs to improve early detection.

"The Health Foundation Director of Health Jo Bibby said," At a time of ongoing cuts to public services, the NHS is undergoing intense pressure.

"The long term consequences of eroding people are more likely to be cheaper."

Its report warns that it is at least an additional £ 1.3bn.

The report comes after doctors warned life expectancy improvements in the UK issues in England and Wales caused by austerity.

Jonathan Ashworth said: "When health inequalities are widening, a new approach to prevention is more and more important.

"That's why in the Commons on Tuesday I'm asking for these start-ups by reversing these swingeing cuts to budget."

Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said that the health secretary Matt Hancock would soon outline his "prevention vision".

They added: "We have a strong track record on public health – robust government action to promote healthy childhood and early childhood.

"Prevention is a top priority and we believe that it is always the case that we are giving more than 16 billion dollars to local councils, and we are going to publish our prevention vision. "