The November PHOF update – what have we learned?
This is the fourth in a series of blogs summarising what we learn each time we update the Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF).
Duncan Selbie's Friday message - 03 November 2017
Dear everyone I am writing this week from Sierra Leone where we have marked the handover to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation of the three PHE laboratories in Freetown, Bo and Makeni, all refurbished by PHE to UK standards …
PHE’s legacy public health work in Sierra Leone
Images show finished hospital lab in Sierra Leone (top) and the refurbishment process (below) In this blog PHE's Paul Johnstone explains the organisation's involvement in Sierra Leone, from the West African Ebola epidemic to the opening a new hospital laboratory …
How alcohol and drug treatment helps to reduce crime
There is a well-established and complex link between drugs, alcohol and crime, and in the recent years there has been a particular emphasis on the links between drug misuse and offending.
Duncan Selbie's Friday message - 27 October 2017
Dear everyone On Monday and Tuesday, the International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI) held its annual conference in Rome. IANPHI has over 100 national public health institutes and agencies in membership and this summer they undertook a peer …
Suicide Prevention Planning Guidance – One Year On
It has been a year since we published our suicide prevention planning guidance and thought it was a timely opportunity to take stock on progress made over that time.
Health Matters: Your questions on the preventing ill health CQUIN
We hope our latest edition of Health Matters – on the subject of “Preventing ill health from alcohol and tobacco”– will help you and other health professionals by compiling key facts, figures and evidence of effective interventions. This professional resource makes the …
Duncan Selbie's Friday message 20 October 2017
Dear everyone Each year PHE has an annual accountability review and this was on Tuesday, with Steve Brine MP, Minister for Public Health and Primary Care. We covered a broad range of priorities, from our local impact to our national …
Health Matters: Public perceptions of a smokefree NHS
Hospitals and smoking: a complex relationship The hospital environment is one where the most extreme of human experiences are played out. They bring in new life, treat people in pain, heal—and sadly many lives will come to an end there.
What healthcare workers need to know about the flu vaccine
Protecting individuals and populations through immunisation programmes is a highly successful public health intervention that saves many lives across the globe each year.