As we release our Commercial Strategy, I wanted to reflect on the ways in which we partner with industry to drive greater innovations and better health outcomes. One unintended consequence of the response to COVID-19 was the suppression of many …
Staying at home during Ramadan will play an important part in the nation’s effort to slow the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). That’s the message from health experts and Muslim leaders as communities across England prepare to celebrate the holy month.
This week our Chief Executive's message covers the Government's new action plan for adult social care and increased COVID-19 testing in social care settings, new mental health advice on PHE's Every Mind Matters platform, the new COVID-19 dashboard, and the new senior leadership arrangements for PHE's regional teams.
This week our Chief Executive's message covers testing for COVID-19, new guidance that has been published on PPE, mental health and care of the deceased, a new WhatsApp chatbot tool for COVID-19 information, and the establishment of Public Health Scotland.
I love my job. For ten years I have worked at Public Health England (PHE) and its predecessor, the Health Protection Agency, responding to major public health emergencies including the ebola outbreak and the Novichok poisoning. There is nothing more …
This week our Chief Executive's message covers shielding for the extremely vulnerable people at highest risk from coronavirus, the many volunteers that have signed up to support the NHS, and the results of the 2019 Civil Service People Survey.
This week our Chief Executive's message covers the social distancing measures set out by the Prime Minister, our approach to scaling up UK testing capacity is to use both antigen and antibody testing, and the Public Health Grant allocations for local authorities for 2020/21.
This week our Chief Executive's message covers the COVID-19 delay phase and our new tracking dashboard, No Smoking Day, and new funding to expand drug and alcohol treatment for people experiencing rough sleeping.
This week our Chief Executive's message covers COVID-19, our new e-cigarette evidence review, and the consultation on SACN's draft report on lower carbohydrate diets for adults with type 2 diabetes.
This blog, published to coincide with PHE’s latest independent e-cigarette evidence report, looks at some of the most common misconceptions around e-cigarettes and provides the facts.
As we start to see more coronavirus cases in the UK, and more widespread community transmission of the virus, further measures to reduce the contact people have with each other may be needed. In this blog we explain what these measures, sometimes referred to as social distancing, mean.
