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Professor David Salisbury, Director of Immunisation at the Department of Health, describes the MMR catch-up vaccination programme in England.
The radioactive gas occurs naturally and is present in all buildings all over the UK. It cannot be seen, smelled or tasted - but each year is believed to lead to over 1,000 lung cancer deaths.
New sexually transmitted infection diagnoses rose 5% in 2012 according to PHE data, mostly due to improved data collection.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has appointed five senior figures with a wide variety of professional experience to become new Non-Executive Directors, Care and Support Minister, Norman Lamb, announced today.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
PHE is hosting a conference to update attendees on the global and UK situation on Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
The government has banned 'NBOMe' and 'Benzofury', two groups of 'legal highs'.
This ACMD letter to the Home Secretary advises on a TCDO on 2 groups of novel psychoactive substances (5-6APB and NBOMe compounds).
Jeremy Browne writes to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) accepting recommendations on a TCDO for 5-6APB and NBOMe compounds.
John Pattullo has been named as the new chairman of NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced today.
The Department of Health is seeking to appoint a Chair and 7 members to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.
A new report published today by Public Health England (PHE) shows that swimming in the River Thames can carry a risk of gastrointestinal illness.
The first edition of PHE Bulletin includes news of Public Health England’s 7 priorities and a toolkit for local authorities and businesses.
Highlights include PHE’s Heatwave Plan for England, new vaccination programmes, ‘tick aware’ leaflets and the public health workforce strategy.
A consultation on strengthening powers to seize drug cutting agents has been launched by the Home Office.
Measures to improve the training, values and education of all NHS staff.
Schwartz Center Rounds allows NHS staff to get together once a month to reflect on the stresses and dilemmas that they have faced.
Working with Dementia Action Alliance, the Department of Health is supporting a call for NHS trusts to make all hospitals dementia-friendly.
We need to return to the idea of the family doctor, in a modern context, if we are to improve care and ease the pressure on A&E departments.
Letters from minister highlight concerns about 'legal highs' (new psychoactive substances), illegal drugs and gases (such as nitrous oxide).
The Care and Support Minister has written to the chairs of health and wellbeing boards.
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