What public health issues we can expect in 2023, according to Rutland expert

After last year brought with it a number of tough tests to public health, local experts are outlining what they expect 2023 will bring.

Rutland's public health director Mike Sandys tells us the cost of living, severe hot and cold temperatures as well as a number of viruses like Covid, Monkeypox and Strep A, were all a cause for concern to public health.

He hopes this year will bring less challenges:

'I suspect extreme weather will feature again; obviously COVID hasn't gone away although we've got used to living with it, via vaccinations and therapeutics.'

'But you can see that it's still out there and there's always a fear for me that a new variant will come along.'

'I was reflecting over Christmas, - course going into 2022, past the worst of COVID, I was hoping it was going to be a nice quiet year for me.'

'If I look at the things I scribbled during the last year - there were things in there about heatwaves, monkeypox, the cost of living crisis. There was all sorts of things that came out of the woodwork in 2022.'

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