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 …
This World Birth Defect Day we can reflect on an important achievement in England: the establishment of a single, national, system for registering birth defects, which we prefer to call congenital anomalies.
Dear everyone There is no other way to begin this week other than saying thank you to local authorities and to every person across the health and social care family who has battled the so called ‘Beast from the East’ …
Welcome to the latest edition of PHE’s Health Matters, a resource for local authorities and health professionals, which for this edition focuses on community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing. Why communities matter Positive health outcomes can only be achieved by …
Rare disease day falls on the last day of February every year.
Dear everyone I had the privilege of spending the morning in Blackpool on Monday and to see again at first hand how local government are tackling the root causes of poor health through a focus on re-energising their housing policy, …
Earlier this month we hosted our fifth annual cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention conference – Getting Serious About CVD Prevention 2018 – with a focus on the world leading NHS Health Check. This year’s conference was attended by over 450 delegates …
This blog is part of Disease Detectives, a series which showcases PHE science. This piece comes from our Emerging Infections and Zoonoses team and was written by PHE epidemiologist Jennifer Lloyd.
Not surprisingly, there are lots of inaccuracies and misconceptions about e-cigarettes and vaping. This blog looks at some of the most common myths and provides the facts.
We have previously written about the focus that Public Health England is putting on making the economic case for prevention and this is manifesting itself practically through the development of a series of Return on Investment (RoI) Tools for locals …
This post was published in 2018 when Public Health England had responsibility for health advice relating to e-cigarettes. For the most recent information please visit the NHS website or search for the topic on the gov.uk website. Following the recent …
