Who’s eligible for the 2025 COVID-19 vaccine, or ‘Spring Booster’?
Who’s eligible for the 2025 COVID-19 vaccine, or ‘Spring Booster’?
Details of who is eligible to book a free NHS COVID-19 vaccination this spring.
Getting it right for children and young people
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Viv Bennett, Posted on:
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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...
Promoting wellbeing and mental health: what's next?
Posted by:
Kevin Fenton, Posted on:
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Health and Wellbeing, Mental health, Reducing the burden of disease
...illness can harm – especially the more disadvantaged communities. A recent report described how the system was letting down people with serious mental illness by not focusing enough on their...
Public health in a changing climate
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Paul Cosford, Posted on:
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Climate change, Health Protection, Protecting the country's health, Sustainability
...meat, and especially rare steaks, am I really willing to argue for significant changes to people's diet, not only to increase fruit and veg consumption (obviously good for our health,...
Big city public health
...to be met, not avoided. Now, six months after PHE opened for business, there’s no doubt that this particular big city will be keeping us on our toes and pushing...
Information as an intervention
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John Newton, Posted on:
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Chief Knowledge Officer, Reducing preventable deaths
A question I often ask, as I talk to meetings and groups, is “which of the following is the commonest cause of premature death in your area?” Cancer Cardiovascular disease...
Culture co-creation
...evidence, showed no benefit. But I would have resigned, without hard feelings. As it was we managed to convince the public, and the urologists, that the there was no strong...
Social marketing 2.0
Posted by:
Kevin Fenton, Posted on:
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Health and Wellbeing, Reducing the burden of disease
Everyone remembers those iconic public health adverts – the ‘fatty cigarette’ or HIV tombstone TV ads for example. But there is a lot more to health marketing than memorable and...
Completing the public health family
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David Heymann, Posted on:
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Advisory Board, Developing our own capacity and capability
When I spoke recently at the first annual Public Health England conference, I described it as a very special conference. It was a special conference, I said, because it finally...