At last year’s PHE annual conference we launched Health Matters with the aim of helping local authorities and health professionals improve population health and reduce health inequalities in their local area. The transfer of public health services from the NHS …
Back in March I blogged about how community and placed-based approaches to health and wellbeing underpin all of our work at PHE, from tackling obesity to ensuring every child has the best start in life. The potential for these approaches …
We work for Londoners' health every day, but occasionally we need to look up and see what is over the horizon. In London we have recently delivered the final webinar in our Future Drivers of the Health of Londoners webinar …
I was recently invited to an All Party Parliamentary roundtable to explore how we will implement recommendations from the 2016 parliamentary report on behaviour change, information and signposting. These actions will support the NHS Five Year Forward View commitment to …
Today sees the publication of a paper in the journal The Lancet Oncology written by PHE and Cancer Research UK on 30-day mortality following chemotherapy on patients with breast and non-small cell lung cancer treated in England in 2014. The …
Remember the days when many of us had physically demanding jobs, we made far fewer car journeys and the internet and other technologies hadn’t given us so many excuses to sit still? This isn’t just an opportunity for nostalgia; it’s …
The Olympics have shown us how four years of training, dedication, preparation and sheer hard-work can be distilled to a millisecond, an eighth of an inch or even the arbitrary whim of judges. Like most of us who were engrossed …
Hepatitis B virus is around 50 to 100 times more infectious than HIV. Hepatitis B can be transmitted through unprotected sex, sharing needles, or through direct contact with the smallest amount of blood. Infection is often symptomless but can eventually …
It’s worrying to see new figures showing a sustained increase in cases likely to have been sexually-acquired between men who have sex with men (MSM). Historically Shigella infections in adults in the UK were mainly due to overseas travel. However, …
1. It only gets hot enough to be dangerous in countries warmer than the UK Clearly there are many other countries which experience much higher temperatures than the UK, and sometimes many more deaths, for example as witnessed in India …
