Posts about the work of the Chief Knowledge Officer's directorate
PHE’s National Mental Health Intelligence Network (NMHIN) has published a report that reveals major variation in need and delivery of care for people with psychosis across England. It aims to help those involved locally in the planning, commissioning and provision of …
A number of recent studies have shown that a ‘hidden majority’ of adults identified in childhood as having a learning disability are not identified as such within adult heath or social care services. The studies analysed data from the Understanding …
Today at the PHE conference the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS), in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support, released new figures showing that there were 1.87 million people living with and beyond a cancer diagnosis in England at the …
Today sees the publication of a paper in the journal The Lancet Oncology written by PHE and Cancer Research UK on 30-day mortality following chemotherapy on patients with breast and non-small cell lung cancer treated in England in 2014. The …
The Olympics have shown us how four years of training, dedication, preparation and sheer hard-work can be distilled to a millisecond, an eighth of an inch or even the arbitrary whim of judges. Like most of us who were engrossed …
This week we launched the dedicated online dashboard of cancer-related information. Released alongside the Cancer Strategy Implementation Plan, it was developed by PHE and NHS England to meet recommendation number 1 of the Independent Cancer Taskforce Report published last July. …
The 29th of February will mark the 9th International Rare Disease Day, followed shortly afterwards by World Birth Defects Day on the 3rd of March. Hundreds of events to mark these two important days have been organised in over 80 …
Can we improve cancer outcomes through the use of robots? How can we commission services differently to reduce variation in cancer outcomes? How can we implement a new local model of care for head and neck cancers to improve outcomes? …
We all know someone close to us who has had cancer, and by 2020 nearly half of us born in 1960 will be living with a diagnosis of cancer ourselves. Our ability to detect cancer earlier, to understand why some …
Last week Cancer Research UK released a press release showing that bowel cancer is more likely to be diagnosed at the earliest stage if it is picked up by screening. This used new PHE data that, for the first time, …
