Partnership working is a critical tool to addressing health inequalities - the causes of the deep-seated inequalities we have as a nation cannot be addressed by any one agency working alone. Different skills, different relationships and different approaches need to …
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: Stroke campaign This week we re-launched our Act F.A.S.T campaign, which urges …
Throughout the Ebola outbreak there have been UK media headlines reporting ‘suspected’ cases. PHE expert Dr. Emma Aarons looks at the meaning of a ‘suspected case’, and why it’s important to view these in the wider context of our testing …
Today is World Cancer Day. People care about cancer and our PHE public opinions survey showed that cancer is the public’s number one health concern. We are lucky in England to have excellent cancer services and to be seeing improving …
It may be difficult for younger people to imagine our world less than fifty years ago, where people in the UK were criminalised for their sexual orientation. There has been major legislative reform for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) …
Responding to the risk posed by Ebola requires action both here in the UK and overseas. And though the best way to remove the Ebola risk altogether is beat the virus at its source in West Africa, substantial work goes …
From our inception in PHE London we have had our eye on the city’s children. London is a young city but children have very different experiences of growing up here. More children live in poverty in London than elsewhere in …
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: Be Clear on Cancer This week, a new PHE campaign …
Listening to what young people tell us is important to them is key in how we develop our priorities and work programmes. It also played an important part in the creation of our Young Person’s Health and Wellbeing Framework, which …
All newborn babies in England are now being offered screening for four additional rare genetic disorders through the expansion of newborn screening. The current NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme now includes screening for: homocystinuria (HCU), maple syrup urine disease …
