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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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Recovery from drug dependency: where next?

Posted by: Kevin Fenton, Posted on: 6 November 2013 - Categories: Health and Wellbeing, Reducing the burden of disease

...lasting recovery? Where are we in terms of achieving our recovery ambition for people in drug treatment? And, in the context of the statistics released today, what can local authorities...

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Creating a national science hub

Posted by: Richard Gleave, Posted on: 4 November 2013 - Categories: Science hub

...to replace ageing specialist microbiology laboratories in a building at Porton Down that is over 60 years old but, through several iterations, a much larger programme was proposed that would...

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Public health meets economic growth

Posted by: Michael Brodie, Posted on: 30 October 2013 - Categories: Developing our own capacity and capability

...PHE’s Business Development community, as our spinout company Syntaxin has been successfully acquired by Ipsen and we have issued our first licence for PHE polio vaccine technology to GSK. On...

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Continuing the role of public health observatories

Posted by: John Newton, Posted on: 28 October 2013 - Categories: A single knowledge and intelligence service, Chief Knowledge Officer

On 1 April 2013 the regional Public Health Observatories (PHOs) transferred along with the specialist observatories and the National Cancer Intelligence Network into PHE as a single Knowledge and Intelligence...

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Squaring the circle for NHS Health Checks

Posted by: Kevin Fenton, Posted on: 24 October 2013 - Categories: Health and Wellbeing, Reducing the burden of disease

...services. So for instance, in Plymouth and Somerset there is work underway to understand how the NHS Health Check can reach people who may have relatively little contact with primary...

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A fairer health deal for the north

Posted by: Paul Johnstone, Posted on: 21 October 2013 - Categories: Northern Region, Reducing preventable deaths

...their sectors and advise on systematic implementation of solutions across their respective spheres of influence. This is a journey we need to set out on. Everybody benefits with a reduced...

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Supporting people when they need it most

Posted by: Tony Vickers-Byrne, Posted on: 16 October 2013 - Categories: Improving health in the workplace, Mental health

...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,...

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Conference wrap-up: Lyme disease

Posted by: Christine McCartney, Posted on: 15 October 2013 - Categories: Health Protection, Protecting the country's health

For those who haven't heard of it, Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted by tick bites, with between 900 and 1000 confirmed cases each year in the UK. It...

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Fighting the flu on a new front

Posted by: Nick Phin, Posted on: 14 October 2013 - Categories: Health Protection, Immunisation and vaccination, Protecting the country's health

...of the virus and helping to protect the rest of the community. You only have to watch a child with a runny nose to see how easily they can spread...

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Getting it right for children and young people

Posted by: Viv Bennett, Posted on: 9 October 2013 - Categories: Giving children and young people the best start in life, Nursing

...In all of our work at PHE we need to understand the impact on children and young people and seek to maximise the benefits for them. The PHE priorities document...

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