Pedalling your way to better health
Cycling is not just great for your health - travelling to work on your bike can mean a faster, less stressful and more efficient daily commute. This week is Bike Week in the UK and it’s a great opportunity to …
How improving your diet is good for your health and can help tackle climate change
Many of us eat over 90g of red and processed meat a day – we should be moving that down towards the population average of 70g a day. Meanwhile only 30% of us are meeting the 5-a-day recommendation for fruit …
The week at PHE: online highlights, week beginning 8 June 2015
We’re pleased to bring you our round-up highlighting some of PHE’s online activity from the past week. Here’s your chance to catch up on what you might have missed including: Cancer conference #NCIN2015 The National Cancer Intelligence Network Cancer Outcomes …
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS): Who is at risk?
Whether you’re a health professional, a regular traveller to the Middle East, or you're planning to visit the region for Hajj and Umrah, you may have heard of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or "MERS". The risk of contracting the virus remains …
The Patient Portal: offering cancer patients access to their own records
The National Cancer Registration Service (NCRS) collects information about every patient diagnosed with a malignant tumour in England. You can read our blog on the importance of using this data. Now, through an innovative project, patients can also access this …
United against cancer – locally, nationally and internationally
This week marks the start of National Cancer Intelligence Network’s (NCIN) annual Cancer Outcomes Conference; one of the largest and most exciting cancer conferences in the UK. It is not only where new findings on cancer are launched and presented, but …
The week at PHE: online highlights, week beginning 1 June 2015
We’re pleased to bring you our round-up highlighting some of PHE’s online activity from the past week. Here’s your chance to catch up on what you might have missed including: Health Profiles This week we published new Health Profiles for …
Reducing smoking in secure mental health units
At any one time up to 7,000 people in England are in a secure mental health unit. The units provide care and treatment to people during an incredibly difficult period of their life and should offer an environment of support, helping people …
Our heatwave plan: Preventing avoidable deaths
Whilst summer may still feel a way off to some, my attention is now firmly moving towards making sure we have everything in place to protect the health of those most at risk from high temperatures this summer. This is …
Dementia Awareness Week 2015: Add life to your years and years to your life
This week is Dementia Awareness Week; a welcome opportunity for us at PHE to share what we know about dementia, that it affects over 800,000 people in the UK, and to highlight what we can all do as individuals to reduce …