In this blog post, we share more information about what mpox is, the different clades, the key symptoms and how UKHSA is working with partners to respond to the outbreak.
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 …
...how strains of bacteria and viruses undergo genetic change within an individual during the course of infection and how these are transmitted to others. We need to link with other...
...was happening, recognising the domestic violence and abuse, providing reassurance and signposting to specialist services and support. But domestic violence doesn’t just stay at home; the impact on an individual’s...
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...
We must do more to improve our children’s health – this is the call for action from the Chief Medical Officer for England in her latest Annual Report. In a hard-hitting analysis, Dame Sally Davies has set out the main …
...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...
...all this is that alcohol-related harm continues to climb. Alcohol is now the third leading, but avoidable, contributor to ill health after smoking and high blood pressure. Alcohol plays a...
Antibiotics have been around for nearly 70 years. Many people still alive today may remember them first being used to treat casualties from the Second World War. Around 1944 a newspaper billboard proclaimed that ‘Penicillin cures gonorrhoea in four hours …
...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...
...and midwives are doing across public heath, the NHS and social care. Public Health England nurses - who are we and where are we? The power of 303! The nursing...
