Posts about the work of the Health and Wellbeing directorate
...spread good practice and enhance local responsiveness to this problem. Where there are national level solutions we will advocate for change, and work with relevant stakeholders to find the most...
HIV remains a major source of harm to people’s health, much of which is avoidable. There are more HIV tests being performed in England than at any time in the...
...expense. But how do you begin this conversation? And with whom? Only a minority of patients will be drinking at risky levels – how do you identify them? There are...
Today Public Health England published national drug treatment statistics for adults in 2012-13. They show that treatment continues to perform well overall and that, within the context of declining prevalence, the numbers in treatment are falling. Access remains quick and …
How will NHS Health Checks help us in our priority of reducing health inequalities? It's a question I get asked a lot because of the nature of the programme. It's intended as a population-based prevention programme, which will raise awareness and assess …
...our organisation who are facing these very real challenges and doing their best in circumstances that aren't going to change overnight. We know there is still a job to do,...
...of stigma: witness the twitter storm the other week at the sale of Halloween costumes. But we also need to highlight the more insidious ways in which stigma of mental...
...people as part of their Healthy Eating programme? One of Health and Wellbeing’s roles is to design and deliver national social marketing programmes. It’s a high profile area and we...
