Progressing a smokefree NHS
A little over a year ago, I wrote to the chief executive of every NHS Trust in England, calling for their personal commitment to work with PHE towards a truly smokefree NHS.
Support after Suicide – Key to Suicide Prevention
Suicide has a devastating impact on families, friends, communities and work colleagues.
Duncan Selbie's Friday message - 25 May 2018
Dear everyone On Tuesday, we published our first independent assessment of how far the food and drinks industry has gone towards meeting the initial 5% sugar reduction challenge set out in the 2016 Childhood Obesity Plan. This is the most …
Health Matters: Preventing Type 2 diabetes
Welcome to the latest edition of Health Matters, a professional resource, which for this edition focuses on preventing Type 2 diabetes, focusing specifically on the role of the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme (NHS DPP). In July this year the NHS …
Dementia Action Week: Dementia and diet in the news
This week is Dementia Action Week – an important time to raise awareness of dementia, a progressive and ultimately fatal disease that many people have been touched by in some shape or form. Around 850,000 people are living with dementia …
Sugar reduction: What about the drinks not included in the Soft Drinks Industry Levy?
Children are currently consuming more than double the recommended daily intake of sugar. Consuming too much sugar is among the main causes of too many children leaving primary school overweight or obese and suffering with tooth decay. Whilst much of the …
The world’s first sugar reduction programme: Data challenges
Childhood obesity is a national crisis and a leading cause of ill health and premature death – in England, one in three children are overweight or obese by the time they leave primary school. Obese or overweight children are more …
Enabling local authorities to tackle air pollution
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Paul Cosford and Brian Ferguson, Posted on:
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Health economics, Health Protection, Local authority public health
An urgent and costly public health problem During the 1950s, smog (a toxic combination of soot and sulphur dioxide) was commonplace in UK cities and a major source of disease. Since the Clean Air Act of 1956, the character of …
Duncan Selbie's Friday message - 18 May 2018
Dear everyone This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and the focus this year is on stress, which most of us have experienced or been affected by in one way or another. For some, it comes in bouts but for …
Supporting sexual health commissioning: analysing and planning
This is the second in a series of three blogs exploring each stage of the sexual health commissioning cycle. It will focus on the first two stages of the cycle: analysing and planning. It is essential to spend time on …