'Little benefits' of Public Health Wales schemes

Name: 'Little benefits' of Public Health Wales schemes
Uploaded: 2013-09-27T13:57:22.000Z
Duration: 1 min 33 s
Description: About £1.5m of public money was spent in Wales over the last year on 10 projects that were unlikely to bring any health benefits, a report shows.

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About £1.5m of public money was spent in Wales over the last year on 10 projects that were unlikely to bring any health benefits, a report shows.

Experts cast doubt on the benefit of schemes such as a £655,000 a year cooking bus and anti-smoking projects costing thousands.

Shadow Health Minister Darren Millar questioned Welsh government funding "harebrained schemes".

Public Health Wales (PHW) acknowledged it needed to do things differently.

India Pollock reports.

Wales

27 September 2013