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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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Disease Detectives: Taking Whole Genome Sequencing to the field for Ebola surveillance

Posted by: Lauren Cowley, Posted on: 15 May 2018 - Categories: Disease Detectives

Dr Lauren Cowley, formerly a PhD student at PHE and now a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, tells us about her time working on the front line in West Africa tackling the Ebola outbreak …

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Duncan Selbie's Friday message - 11 May 2018

Posted by: Duncan Selbie, Posted on: 11 May 2018 - Categories: Duncan Selbie Friday Message

Dear everyone Our response to the announcement made about breast screening last week has continued at great pace, with every sensitivity and the dedication needed to ensure all those affected receive advice and appropriate follow-up. The helpline is continuing to …

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International Nurses' Day - how PHE is supporting nurses

Posted by: Viv Bennett, Posted on: 11 May 2018 - Categories: midwifery, Nursing
Family nurse talking to mother with child

International Nurses’ Day is celebrated each year on the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth.  Florence herself was described as a social reformer, a statistician and the founder of modern nursing - a blend of public health and nursing that led …

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Inequalities in stage IV cancer treatments

Posted by: Katherine Henson, Posted on: 10 May 2018 - Categories: Cancer, Health Improvement

Previously, there has been limited research into the trends and patterns in treatment for patients when they are diagnosed with stage IV cancer, compared to those for early stage cancer.

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What’s new in the May PHOF update?

Posted by: Dave Jephson, James Westwood and Sophie Scanlon, Posted on: 7 May 2018 - Categories: Public health data

This is the latest in a series of blogs summarising what we learn each time we update the Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF). The PHOF sets out a vision for public health, desired outcomes and the indicators that will help us …

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Duncan Selbie's Friday message - 4 May 2018

Posted by: Duncan Selbie, Posted on: 4 May 2018 - Categories: Duncan Selbie Friday Message

Dear everyone For obvious reasons there is only one matter to cover this week - the failure over many years to invite a large number of women to their final breast cancer screen. For most of us early detection and …

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What is Whole Genome Sequencing?

Posted by: Kathie Grant, Posted on: 1 May 2018 - Categories: Health Protection

Genomic information is important for a range of areas in public health protection, from tracking infectious disease outbreaks, to identifying inherited disorders, and characterising mutations that underpin the progression of cancers. Genome: An organism’s complete set of DNA, including all …

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Specialised commissioning – what does it mean and how are PHE involved?

Posted by: Allison Streetly and Judith Bell, Posted on: 25 April 2018 - Categories: Health Protection

In this blog we look at specialised commissioning and explain how it works and the role PHE plays. 

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Shingles: What is it and why do we need to vaccinate against it?

Posted by: Joanne Yarwood, Posted on: 24 April 2018 - Categories: Health Protection, Immunisation and vaccination

This week is European Immunisation Week (EIW) – a week to celebrate the value of vaccination, an intervention which saves millions of lives across the globe every year.

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The pre-election period

Posted by: Blog Editor, Posted on: 12 April 2018 - Categories: PHE announcement

Local elections will be taking place on Thursday 3 May 2018. Like many other public sector organisations, we will be communicating in-line with the guidance for the Civil Service in the pre-election period. Though we will continue to publish data, …

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