Duncan Selbie is the founding Chief Executive of Public Health England. Prior to 2013, he was Chief Executive of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals, the regional teaching hospital for the south east of England. From 2003 to 2007 he was the Director General of Programmes and Performance for the NHS and subsequently its first Director General of Commissioning. Prior to this, he was Chief Executive of South East London Strategic Health Authority and before that Chief Executive of the South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust. He joined the NHS in January 1980.
Dear everyone The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favour of the Scottish Government’s intention to set a minimum unit price for the sale of alcohol, which when implemented will be a world first. Our evidence review in 2016, published in …
Dear everyone The NHS is our most cherished public service. It is something we know people deeply care about and on Wednesday this week NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens spoke about the need for further investment to keep it …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Dear everyone Winter always brings about additional pressure on the NHS and public services and this makes it even more important that people take steps to protect their health and stay well. The most obvious measure to take is to …
Dear everyone For the first time the UK has seen a decline in new HIV diagnoses. This week we reported that in 2016, 5,164 people were newly diagnosed with HIV in the UK, an 18% decline on the previous year, …
Dear everyone This week I have been in Seattle contributing to a conference celebrating a study, funded by the Gates Foundation, which started twenty years ago and has since helped transform health care policy across the globe, hugely impacting research, …
Dear everyone, This week saw more lives lost in a natural disaster in Mexico City and the UK government is heavily engaged in supporting the British overseas territories in the Caribbean in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Our …
Dear everyone, Five years in, the public health system is strong and in good shape and our annual conference this week brought together over 1500 people from every conceivable profession, discipline and organisation
