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 …
PHE is in the height of its digital transformation and the results are clear to see throughout the organisation.
The 2016-17 statistics report for people receiving drug and alcohol treatment in prisons and other secure settings in England shows similar patterns to what we have recently seen in community treatment.
We spend a third of our lives asleep. Most people know that a good night’s sleep is the best way to recover after a hard day.
Dear everyone For treating problems such as pain, anxiety and depression, prescription drugs are vital and benefit many people. It is when patients encounter problems such as dependence and withdrawal symptoms that the medicines themselves become a problem. On Wednesday …
It’s been one year since the launch in the House of Lords of “Rebalancing Act”: a resource developed by PHE, Home Office and Revolving Doors Agency, to support a broad range of local, regional and national stakeholders in understanding and …
Welcome to the latest edition of PHE’s Health Matters, a professional resource, which for this edition focuses on how the NHS Health Check is playing an important role in the prevention and early detection of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in England. …
Last year the World Health Organization declared that the UK eliminated measles. This is a huge achievement that is testament to the hard work by NHS health professionals over many years to ensure that children and adults are fully protected …
It is a year since we published AHPs into Action which was accompanied by a blog explaining what this means from a public health perspective. As such, I wanted to take this opportunity to outline the progress and achievements made …
Dear everyone Improving life expectancy is important but even more so is improving healthy life expectancy, or as the Christian Aid sign outside their headquarters in Lambeth puts it, ‘we believe in life before death’. In the last week I …
We all know that if we have a bad night’s sleep, the next day we’re just not at our best. We are often more irritable, find it hard to concentrate or don’t perform as well as usual and the longer …
