“A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving” [Lao Tzu] A few weeks ago, I was asked to give a talk to a group of clinical fellows undertaking work placements at various national organisations including …
We hope our latest edition of Health Matters – this time covering midlife approaches to reduce dementia risk – will help you and other health professionals by compiling key facts, figures and evidence of effective interventions. Where we can, we’re …
We need to find people with advanced hepatitis C virus related liver disease and provide treatment in order to prevent them dying prematurely from this chronic infection or needing liver transplants or progressing to liver cancer. This is because in …
With 1 April nearly upon us, local authorities, government departments, NHS trusts, clinical commissioning groups and other public sector bodies have been busy planning their budgets and commissioning services for the next financial year. In the context of increasingly limited resources …
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 Matters: Mid-life approaches to reduce dementia risk This week …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMybhqoZ75I&feature=youtu.be There’s a very important reason we are releasing a film today with such a recognisable and admired actress. It’s all about the current tuberculosis (TB) situation in London. In 2014 there were 2,572 cases reported in London - more …
In this blog, PHE's Paul Cosford and Deputy Chief Medical Officer Gina Radford welcome the progress made at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris at the end of last year. When world leaders agreed in Paris in …
As waistlines continue to expand across the country (62% of adults are overweight or obese), diagnoses of Type 2 diabetes are also rising. The cost of treating diabetes, and associated complications such as heart disease and stroke, is costing the …
We hope that through the breadth of ‘Health Matters - Midlife approaches to reduce dementia risk’ content, we have made the case for investment of time and money in dementia prevention, but a question may remain; what tools and resources …
Health inequalities have become an increasingly important consideration as we learn more about the potential for risk-reduction in dementia. Local authorities and healthcare professionals should be mindful that an individual’s risk of developing dementia can be significantly determined by a …
