IN CONVERSATION WITH...
MATT ASHTON DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH SEFTON AND KNOWSLEY
A high visibility jacket hangs behind Matt Ashton’s desk. On the back emblazoned in reflective lettering ‘Director of Public Health’. It’s for ‘emergencies’ he tells us, thankfully he doesn’t wear it often. But there’s only one of that jacket …and its owner is in charge of keeping more than 420,000 people across Knowsley and Sefton healthy and happy – isn’t he? 14
We’re only on this planet once... we shouldn’t have a rubbish time.