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What is Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and how can you help combat it?

Campaign mascot Andi Biotic reminds us to Keep Antibiotics Working

What is Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and how can you help combat it?

We introduce the new campaign to Keep Antibiotics Working, fronted by our mascot Andi Biotic, and look at why we all need to be more aware of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).

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Tackling food poverty on a local and national level

Posted by: Kevin Fenton, Posted on: 23 December 2013 - Categories: Health and Wellbeing, Reducing the burden of disease

Food poverty, or insecurity, is a personal tragedy for many people. More than 350,000 people had to turn to emergency food banks between April and September this year, according to...

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How does a public health agency contribute to economic growth?

Posted by: Michael Brodie, Posted on: 18 December 2013 - Categories: Developing our own capacity and capability

...if they had to build these capabilities from scratch. In the life sciences sector, quality assurance is critically important. By offering our testing and quality assurance capabilities to industry (for...

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It takes a community to raise a child

Posted by: Rashmi Shukla, Posted on: 16 December 2013 - Categories: Giving children and young people the best start in life, Midlands and East of England

Early on in our existence as Public Health England, the four PHE centre directors for the Midlands and East of England region and I discussed where we particularly wanted to...

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A richer conversation about health

Posted by: Jonathan Marron, Posted on: 11 December 2013 - Categories: Reducing preventable deaths, Reducing the burden of disease

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...

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Driving forward infectious disease genomics

Posted by: Christine McCartney, Posted on: 9 December 2013 - Categories: Microbiology services, Protecting the country's health

...bioinformatic capabilities to manage, store and share this data and to link them effectively to clinical and epidemiological datasets. We also have to accept that this is a rapidly moving...

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Making work a safe place for those experiencing domestic violence

Posted by: Tony Vickers-Byrne, Posted on: 4 December 2013 - Categories: Improving health in the workplace
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We are in the midst of the 16 Days of Action Opposing Violence Against Women, a national movement to raise awareness and prompt action across the world. Public Health England...

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Making HIV testing part of how we care for ourselves

Posted by: Paul Cosford, Posted on: 2 December 2013 - Categories: Health and Wellbeing, Health Protection, Protecting the country's health, Reducing preventable deaths
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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...

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Doing more to improve our children's health

Posted by: Eustace de Sousa, Posted on: 27 November 2013 - Categories: Giving children and young people the best start in life

...for population size and other variables five extra children under the age of 14 die every day. Secondly, variation in health and wellbeing outcomes between local areas highlights what good...

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Defining and delivering integrated public health

Posted by: Sally Warren, Posted on: 25 November 2013 - Categories: Reducing preventable deaths

...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...

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Having the conversation about alcohol

Posted by: Kevin Fenton, Posted on: 20 November 2013 - Categories: Health and Wellbeing, Reducing the burden of disease

...cheaper today than it has ever been when compared to our earnings and how much money we have for luxury items. Alcohol consumption has levelled off in the past few...

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