Posts about the work of the Chief Knowledge Officer's directorate
Today is World Cancer Day. People care about cancer and our PHE public opinions survey showed that cancer is the public’s number one health concern. We are lucky in England to have excellent cancer services and to be seeing improving …
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 …
We are fortunate to have a number of data sources that allow us to track changes in the care and outcomes for people with diabetes and identify local variation across England. These include the National Diabetes Audit which provides an …
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 …
Today, we’re launching Healthier Lives, Diabetes: a new tool to track how we’re tackling diabetes in different areas of England. What’s new is the way it illustrates the risk factors for and care of people with diabetes across different communities …
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. …
...cancer. Early-stage cancers (stages 1 or 2) have hardly spread at all and patients usually do very well, while late-stage cancers (stage 4) have often metastasized well beyond the original...
...rate at which our medical microbiology is modernising. Of course, these days our Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is at the very heart of everything that we do. This may...
...fruit and vegetable consumption (green blobs), in higher income groups than in lower. more fat consumption and more “unhealthy” fat consumption in lower income and educational attainment groups (more transfats,...
We hear a great deal about the common illnesses that affect many people such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. However, we hear much less on rare diseases, each of...
