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88 areas piloting health schemes | | Ministers have identified 88 primary care trusts to pilot public health initiatives on the back of this week's White Paper. The 200-page policy document sets out how the government is planning to combat health problems associated with obesity, smoking, drinking and mental and sexual health. More than �1bn has been earmarked for public health over the next three years. Listed below are the 88 pilots which will trial schemes from stop smoking services to health trainers: Gateshead Newcastle North Tyneside South Tyneside Sunderland Teaching Northumberland Care Trust Wansbeck Hartlepool Middlesbrough Langbaurgh North Tees Durham and Chester-le-Street Derwentside Easington Sedgefield Durham Dales Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Morecambe Bay Eden Valley Carlisle and District Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Preston Bolton Bury South Manchester Central Manchester North Manchester Oldham Rochdale Heywood and Middleton Salford Tameside and Glossop Ashton, Leigh and Wigan Knowsley North Liverpool Central Liverpool South Liverpool St Helens Bebington and West Wirral Birkenhead and Wallasey Halton Warrington Eastern Hull West Hull North East Lincolnshire Airedale Bradford City Bradford South and West North Bradford Eastern Wakefield Wakefield West Barnsley Doncaster Central Doncaster East Doncaster West Rotherham Nottingham City North Eastern Derbyshire West Lincolnshire Leicester City West Eastern Leicester Northamptonshire Heartlands North Stoke South Stoke Burntwood, Lichfield and Tamworth South Birmingham North Birmingham Heart of Birmingham Teaching Eastern Birmingham Oldbury and Smethwick Rowley Regis and Tipton Wednesbury and West Bromwich Walsall Teaching Wolverhampton City Coventry North Warwickshire Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Islington Barking and Dagenham City and Hackney Newham Tower Hamlets Greenwich Lambeth Lewisham Southwark
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