Reducing preventable deaths
Posts relating to PHE Priority 1: Reducing preventable deaths
How do we make the financial case for investing in public health? It’s an important question for Public Health England, because unless our recommendations and advice stack up economically, they are less likely to be implemented, however compelling the scientific …
“To tall men I’m a midget and to short men I’m a giant; to the skinny ones I’m a fat man and to the fat ones I’m a thin man….. In fact I’m quite ordinary.” So says the Ordinary Man …
...a scheme called The Patient Portal, with support from charities the BrainsTrust and Cancer Research UK, which offers individual patients access to their own information. We also produce an online...
...mail to ask if they would like to be tested for one of a range of serious diseases. The individual receiving the invitation has almost certainly not been worried enough...
...supported real change in thinking and in services. PHE is committed to supporting local areas to develop and implement their integrated approaches. Over the coming weeks, through our centres, we...
English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon once said, “Knowledge is power”. The more of it we have, the better informed and equipped we are to address any issues and drive improvements. And this too is true for health. Within Public Health …
As a country we are used to having a conversation about healthcare. A&E, access to GPs, the future of local hospitals are core to the daily news and to political debate. Indeed there are aspects of the current debate, as …
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 three decades we’ve been battling this virus. That’s welcome, but …
...public’s health has a key part to play in successful integration to drive health and well-being, other than to only manage acute sickness. For an individual to be truly in...
...intelligence works along much the same principle of asking lots of questions - not just about the state of a population’s health but also about the factors that help shape...