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 …
The latest edition of Health Matters is about standard packs and seizing the moment to help more smokers quit. I'd like to thank Dr Colin Mendelsohn, tobacco treatment specialist and Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine …
We’re pleased to bring you our round-up highlighting some of PHE’s online activity from the past week, as well as a look back at our 2016 national conference. Here’s your chance to catch up on what you might have missed …
Welcome to the latest edition of Health Matters, a resource for public health professionals, which focuses on how tobacco standard packs can not only help to prevent the next generation of smokers but also encourage existing smokers to quit. Think …
Worklessness is an important public health issue at both local and national level and is highlighted in many health and wellbeing strategies, devolution plans and in the Five Year Forward View and Sustainability Transformation Plans for the NHS. With combined …
Today at the PHE conference the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS), in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support, released new figures showing that there were 1.87 million people living with and beyond a cancer diagnosis in England at the …
At last year’s PHE annual conference we launched Health Matters with the aim of helping local authorities and health professionals improve population health and reduce health inequalities in their local area. The transfer of public health services from the NHS …
Back in March I blogged about how community and placed-based approaches to health and wellbeing underpin all of our work at PHE, from tackling obesity to ensuring every child has the best start in life. The potential for these approaches …
We work for Londoners' health every day, but occasionally we need to look up and see what is over the horizon. In London we have recently delivered the final webinar in our Future Drivers of the Health of Londoners webinar …
I was recently invited to an All Party Parliamentary roundtable to explore how we will implement recommendations from the 2016 parliamentary report on behaviour change, information and signposting. These actions will support the NHS Five Year Forward View commitment to …
Today sees the publication of a paper in the journal The Lancet Oncology written by PHE and Cancer Research UK on 30-day mortality following chemotherapy on patients with breast and non-small cell lung cancer treated in England in 2014. The …
