Welcome to the latest edition of PHE’s Health Matters, a professional resource, which for this edition focuses on how the NHS Health Check is playing an important role in the prevention and early detection of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in England. …
Last year the World Health Organization declared that the UK eliminated measles. This is a huge achievement that is testament to the hard work by NHS health professionals over many years to ensure that children and adults are fully protected …
It is a year since we published AHPs into Action which was accompanied by a blog explaining what this means from a public health perspective. As such, I wanted to take this opportunity to outline the progress and achievements made …
Dear everyone Improving life expectancy is important but even more so is improving healthy life expectancy, or as the Christian Aid sign outside their headquarters in Lambeth puts it, ‘we believe in life before death’. In the last week I …
We all know that if we have a bad night’s sleep, the next day we’re just not at our best. We are often more irritable, find it hard to concentrate or don’t perform as well as usual and the longer …
This week we publish our 5th update to “Routes to Diagnosis”, the foundation of England’s efforts to improve outcomes for patients diagnosed with cancer. This publication is particularly relevant as we now have ten years’ worth of data to examine, …
Throughout my career, I have often observed that members of the public are inquisitive about their blood pressure, but rarely know what the numbers mean. So does this matter and what does it mean to have a high blood pressure …
People living in the most deprived areas can expect to spend nearly 20 fewer years in good health compared with those in the least deprived areas. This fact is avoidable, unjust and summarises the scale of health inequality in England …
Social action, including volunteering, fundraising and campaigning, creates a double benefit for those who take part and the communities they are helping.
Firstly, congratulations to the Right Honourable Jeremy Hunt MP who has been reappointed with an extended policy brief as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. Flu has remained at the top of the news again this week as …
