In this blog Viv Bennett, Chief Nurse at Public Health England, expresses her pride in how the nursing profession is playing a vital role in providing high quality care in the most challenging circumstances.
This week our Chief Executive's message covers the Test, Track and Trace programme, the COVID-19 ethnicity review, staying at home during Ramadan, and PHE's new weekly COVID-19 surveillance report and infographic.
One of PHE’s core functions is disease surveillance; making sure we have the right information available to us at the right time to inform decisions and actions across the public health system. In this blog we set out PHE's approach to tracking COVID-19.
Staying at home during Ramadan will play an important part in the nation’s effort to slow the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). That’s the message from health experts and Muslim leaders as communities across England prepare to celebrate the holy month.
This week our Chief Executive's message covers the Government's new action plan for adult social care and increased COVID-19 testing in social care settings, new mental health advice on PHE's Every Mind Matters platform, the new COVID-19 dashboard, and the new senior leadership arrangements for PHE's regional teams.
This week our Chief Executive's message covers testing for COVID-19, new guidance that has been published on PPE, mental health and care of the deceased, a new WhatsApp chatbot tool for COVID-19 information, and the establishment of Public Health Scotland.
I love my job. For ten years I have worked at Public Health England (PHE) and its predecessor, the Health Protection Agency, responding to major public health emergencies including the ebola outbreak and the Novichok poisoning. There is nothing more …
