Posts relating to PHE Priority 1: Reducing preventable deaths
Today PHE released the most accurate national one-year cancer survival figures ever achieved for five cancer sites on cases diagnosed in 2012. This is a historic milestone and marks one of the greatest achievements so far of the new National Cancer Registration …
We hear a great deal about the common illnesses that affect many people such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer. However, we hear much less on rare diseases, each of which affects relatively small numbers of people. Nevertheless, if you …
We are very fortunate in England to have some of the best primary care services in the world. We also have amongst the most computerised general practices, and primary care activity and clinical information is recorded in real time at …
Since life expectancy was first measured in the mid-19th century the trend in England has been of continued increase, interrupted only by the World Wars. Despite this, people in some areas of the country are still not living nearly as …
It was just a year ago at the 2013 Cancer Outcomes Conference that we announced the completion of the migration to a single National Cancer Registration Service - described by the media as “the largest single cancer database in the …
It’s nearly June. That means many things to many people – summer, school holidays, long evenings… and to some, Health Profiles. Since 2006, these summaries of health data for each local authority in England have been produced to support local …
How do we make the financial case for investing in public health? It’s an important question for Public Health England, because unless our recommendations and advice stack up economically, they are less likely to be implemented, however compelling the scientific …
“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 …
We’re at an exciting time for cancer registration information, taking one step towards a single national cancer registration system. In November, the data from the last of our regional cancer registries was brought into the single processing system, Encore, at …
Medicine is there to help you and having screening and treatment is a good thing, right? Well, there’s a growing body of scientific concern that some testing is ‘over-diagnosing’ patients – that is, finding medical problems that may never cause …
