Julian is a Consultant in Public Health and Director of the Eastern Knowledge and Intelligence Team in Public Health England. He led of PHE’s Longer Lives tool and is interested in the public health potential of primary care and primary data, in reducing premature mortality, and in telling stories with data. Prior to joining PHE, Julian was director of the Eastern Public Health Observatory, and Quality Intelligence east, the quality observatory in the East of England.
Julian has worked in commissioning , clinical effectiveness and health technology assessment and in the dim and distant past was a hospital general physician with and interest in GI and respiratory disease.
When the PHE COVID-19 Dashboard first started back in March 2020, it was just a map and a few charts reporting four metrics on cases and deaths. One year on, read how the dashboard has evolved into the most important and reliable daily statistical publication in the UK.
Keeping the public and leaders across government and the health care sector informed about the progress of the coronavirus pandemic is a critical part of controlling the spread of infection. Find out how the COVID-19 dashboard is bringing all the essential data and statistics about COVID-19 in the UK together into one place.
This time last year I wrote about some of the data tools PHE produces to help local authorities, the NHS and others improve the nation’s health and reduce health inequality. We make many of these available via the updated GOV.UK data …
Welcome to a week of activity - focussing on data - promoted across our social media channels. #PHEDataWeek looks to shine a light on data and move beyond the buzzwords to talk in depth about the importance of data to health protection, prevention …
The recent publication of the ONS reports on Adult Smoking Habits in Great Britain and the Integrated Household Survey results for 2013 brings welcome news on smoking. Adult smoking rates are at their lowest ever, below 19% based on the …
Public Health England was created from a large number of organisations and we inherited a lot of data tools and profiles, many of which are accessible via our data gateway. The number of resources by broad category is shown in the graph …
Next month the premature and preventable mortality data in the Public Health Outcomes Framework and in Longer Lives is being updated and refreshed. Mortality and dying data is a subject that generates much debate and mortality statistics are often in the news. …
In our last blog post we asked for examples of good data visualisations and two of note were Cancer Research UK's "The causes of cancer you can control" and "Cancer, anyone?" on Visual.ly. Interestingly, both of these were cancer related – …
Clive Humby, one of the brains behind Tesco Clubcards, said “Data is the new oil,” by which he meant that there is commercial value in the exploitation of the data that is collected by business. David McCandless, author of Information …
We are very fortunate in England to have some of the best primary care services in the world. We also have amongst the most computerised general practices, and primary care activity and clinical information is recorded in real time at …
