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 …
#PHEDataWeek has been running across our social media channels this week. It has been a great opportunity for us to talk about what data means to us and try and help people understand just how important it is to our …
Last week was the annual scientific conference of the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) at the BT Convention Centre in Liverpool, showcasing the latest basic, translational and clinical cancer research, with over 1,500 delegates. It was significant to see the …
We're used to dealing with large numbers in public health: thousands of people, billions of pounds and terabytes of data. Historically these have been processed and interpreted by analysts into reports but now we are witnessing an increasing demand for …
Digital services use technology to connect people with data and information. Both the digital and data science teams at Public Health England are adopting digital methods to make public health data more accessible and easy to interpret. User needs research …
Whichever way you look at it, data around vaccines is both fascinating and inspiring. Immunisation programmes are one of the world’s public health triumphs with many millions of lives saved since the first vaccines were introduced. In this blog we …
One in five people living in the UK are aged between 10 and 24 and we know that what happens in childhood plays a pivotal role in future health and happiness - this is why giving the best start in …
This is a new language that all public health folks will require. There are lots of encyclopedias for Big Data: Dutch company Datfloq do a good one and the Big Data Made Simple portal has a useful one. What the …
