“To tall men I’m a midget and to short men I’m a giant; to the skinny ones I’m a fat man and to the fat ones I’m a thin man….. In fact I’m quite ordinary.” So says the Ordinary Man …
In early December, Science Hub Programme Director Tim Harry and I were sitting in PHE’s head office at Wellington House waiting to be called downstairs to get the feedback from the external team who were reviewing the progress with the …
...Health Responsibility Deal) and, when necessary, introduce legislation. Local governments clearly also have a critical role in setting local policies and ambitions, in integrating health into social and environmental approaches,...
...of reducing social isolation and improving and protecting health and wellbeing. In addition to the overall winner, there were four award categories: innovation, learning, passion and commitment. To say I...
Public Health England came into existence on 1 April 2013. The creation of a new and diverse agency which inherited functions from a range of previous bodies alongside new responsibilities presented an organisational challenge - particularly given how little precedent …
Earlier this week Sally Warren blogged about how we can support personal and community-level action to help people live well with dementia. I want to consider how we can reduce the risk of developing dementia in the first place. I …
...their change at the till. Dementia Friends is an Alzheimer's Society initiative, and as part of the Prime Minister’s Challenge on dementia PHE are supporting the recruitment of one million...
“Global Health Security” sounds like a very grand and important subject, but what does it mean for PHE (and the UK) and what do we actually do? Global Health Security in this context covers the collective efforts of governments and …
...lesbian, gay and bisexual employees would not feel confident reporting homophobic bullying in their workplace a quarter (26 per cent) of lesbian, gay and bisexual workers are not at all...
...a scheme called The Patient Portal, with support from charities the BrainsTrust and Cancer Research UK, which offers individual patients access to their own information. We also produce an online...
