Government accused of ‘cat and mouse’ game over public health funding Health secretary Matt Hancock has moved to allay fears over the future of councils’ public health teams following a pitch from the body representing NHS trusts to take over some public health services. But his department is also facing mounting pressure to reveal exactly how much funding public health teams will be getting next year, with just three weeks to go until the beginning of the new financial year. There is growing concern in the sector of an attempted NHS land grab following an NHS Providers report published last month which argued that the NHS should take over the commissioning of key public health services.