Health economics
Next week PHE will host our fifth annual conference at the University of Warwick. As we prepare to bring together the public health community I’m taking a look with PHE colleagues at three key topics which are at the forefront …
The NHS Five Year Forward View states that a ‘radical upgrade’ in prevention and public health is required to avoid spending billions of pounds in the future on avoidable illness. We all know that the NHS is facing a significant …
As budgets continue to tighten across the NHS and local government, it’s vital that we make the case for investment in prevention and early intervention. In my second blog in this four-part series, I argued that public health and prevention …
In the first blog of this series I explained why it is so important that we make the case for investment in preventive activity, as highlighted in the NHS Five Year Forward View. If we are to ‘get serious’ about …
This is the first in a series of four blogs, by PHE Chief Economist Brian Ferguson, looking at health economics and the case for investing in prevention initiatives: I've recently been running a series of workshops here at PHE to …