Health Protection
Posts about the work of the Health Protection directorate
In 2012, the Chief Medical Officer for England published the first ever 5 Year Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy. A UK High Level Steering Group followed, which acts as the system steward, providing challenge and ensuring all recommendations are enacted. Public Health …
Conversations about public health may have flowed over coffee yesterday (16 Sep), but they also took place online. On Twitter alone more than 1000 people got involved, Tweeting over 4000 times using the #PHE2014 hashtag. This blog provides a brief snapshot …
Today PHE launches Antibiotic Guardian, a pledge campaign which forms a key part of the UK’s support for European Antibiotic Awareness Day and the wider fight against antibiotic resistance. This campaign matters because we have to stop the overuse and …
...discussions with end users to find out what they want and need. With that in mind, the Online Services Team focused on transferring: content that users want and need to...
...with dementia, people with mental illness, people who are bed-bound.” Here’s another example: above a certain temperature sweating becomes the only way our bodies keep cool, and at high temperatures...
At the Academy Awards earlier this year, Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto won Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for their respective portrayals of people living with HIV. I’m a scientist, not a film critic, but I couldn’t help but …
The past 25 years have seen more than 30 new or emerging infections identified around the world, including SARS, MERS, swine flu, hepatitis E and new variant CJD, with 75% of these infections considered to be zoonoses. Zoonoses are infections …
...huge impact this vaccine has already had: Another example of a new vaccine, we introduced in 2013 is shingles. The illness usually lasts two to four weeks and the first...
Yesterday, NICE published public health guidance on contraceptive services for young people, which will be a valuable new resource for local teams looking to deliver tailored sexual health services at convenient locations for under 25s, which provide easy access to …
...at this time of year much of my time is taken up studying them: their ecology, abundance and the diseases they transmit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzR1eja6Wa8 Ticks are becoming much more common now...
