...and wellbeing peer challenge. Bath and North East Somerset Council will be the first local authority to test this approach, with Peterborough and Blackpool to follow in March. A number...
...programmes for a number of different conditions have been established. There are currently three national cancer screening programmes: breast, bowel and cervical; and eight non-cancer screening programmes: six antenatal and...
...example of a investigation that is typical of the sort of issues that we face. This outbreak of gastrointestinal illness made the BBC News. (See a full report of the...
...or detection of nucleic acid, particularly for the microorganisms that we cannot culture using traditional techniques. Analysing all the complex biological data we are now able to produce often involves...
Obesity can sometimes be hard to spot, even though it’s all around us. Take parents, who think their child is about the right weight, even when the child is actually overweight or obese – this happens to nearly one in …
...coder must identify a primary code, which could be seen as the main reason for admission but they can also record up to 19 secondary codes which describe other diagnoses...
In my previous blog I talked about my vision for integration and the importance of putting people at the heart of care. To bring this to life we published Health...
In the past month, windstorms and flooding have been knocking at our doors more frequently than we would like. Like an unwelcome guest, severe weather brings with it many problems and often ones that are not always easily visible. It …
English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon once said, “Knowledge is power”. The more of it we have, the better informed and equipped we are to address any issues and drive improvements. And this too is true for health. Within Public Health …
Food poverty, or insecurity, is a personal tragedy for many people. More than 350,000 people had to turn to emergency food banks between April and September this year, according to...
