Duncan Selbie's Friday message – 17 March 2017
...(MERS). These were developed by PHE following the treatment of the first patient with MERS by the NHS. This is a great example of how we can leverage the combined...
Duncan Selbie
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.
Smokefree NHS - troubleshooting tips for hospitals
Over recent months we’ve been speaking to NHS trusts at different stages of the journey to becoming tobacco-free. Implementing smokefree grounds is something that some have struggled with, but there are useful learnings out there too. A tobacco-free NHS is …
Preparing to be a tobacco-free trust – learnings from two hospitals in East Anglia
In November 2016, I wrote to the chief executive of every NHS trust in England, calling for their personal commitment to work with PHE towards a truly tobacco-free NHS. We're delighted that Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust and Ipswich Hospital …
Duncan Selbie's Friday message – 10 March
...smoking. It is encouraging to see fewer adults smoking and those who do smoke, smoking less. Even more encouraging is that fewer young people have taken up smoking than ever...
Duncan Selbie's Friday message – 3 March 2017
...its response to the national action plan for tackling blood pressure on behalf of the community pharmacy sector. Their report explores how the community pharmacy sector is already contributing to...
Duncan Selbie's Friday message – 24 Feb 2017
...Alert and Response Network (GOARN) training partners with the World Health Organization. Participants from 20 public health institutions from across the world came together to develop a coordinated programme that...
Duncan Selbie's Friday message – 10 Feb 2017
...the NHS in advising people over 65 having an NHS Health Check that dementia is not an inevitable part of ageing, and that simple life style changes that are good...
5 tips on how to go smoke-free from Medway NHS Foundation Trust
A few months ago I wrote to all NHS Trusts in England asking for their commitment to work with PHE towards a completely tobacco-free NHS.
Duncan Selbie's Friday message – 3 Feb 2017
...members and officers from Harlow Council for a guided tour of our campus at Porton. This gave them an insight into the breadth of our work, from high containment science...
Duncan Selbie's Friday message – 27 Jan 2017
...(MERS-CoV), contributed his expertise during the Rio Olympics and established the UK’s rapid support capability following the learnings from Ebola in West Africa. Brian has been a superlative public servant...