As budgets continue to tighten across the NHS and local government, it’s vital that we make the case for investment in prevention and early intervention. In my second blog in this four-part series, I argued that public health and prevention …
As a nation, we are living longer, but we're spending more years in ill-health. We're increasingly living with multiple conditions and services are struggling to cope with rising demand for treatment. Fifteen million people in Britain are living with a long-term …
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: Rare Disease Day Rare Disease Day takes place every year on …
I wholeheartedly welcome the new guideline on community engagement published today by NICE to support the NHS, local authorities and other service providers to better engage local communities in decisions that affect their health and their lives. The new guideline …
The 29th of February will mark the 9th International Rare Disease Day, followed shortly afterwards by World Birth Defects Day on the 3rd of March. Hundreds of events to mark these two important days have been organised in over 80 …
In the first blog of this series I explained why it is so important that we make the case for investment in preventive activity, as highlighted in the NHS Five Year Forward View. If we are to ‘get serious’ about …
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: Investing in prevention We published the first in a new …
A week ago we welcomed the independent report from the Mental Health Taskforce, setting out how national bodies, including health agencies and government departments, should work together over the next five years to improve mental health. One in four of …
This is the first in a series of four blogs, by PHE Chief Economist Brian Ferguson, looking at health economics and the case for investing in prevention initiatives: I've recently been running a series of workshops here at PHE 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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmcvjSeYmcg Blood in pee campaign This week we launched a …
