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Figures reveal the stark reality of early diagnosis on survival rates
The web based tool assembles indicators at local and regional level, including trends over time.
Includes: deprivation and breast cancer screening uptake, sexual infections, 'Get Going this Summer', 'Longer lives', new cancer patients database.
New guidance states NHS and local authorities are to provide support for people addicted to prescription or over-the-counter medicines.
Written ministerial statement details the joint-working approach to the challenges of the rapid development of new psychoactive substances.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
People will now find it easier to make healthier choices about the food they eat with the new consistent front of pack nutritional label.
Longer Lives, a new website showing the variation in early death rates has been launched by Public Health England (PHE).
The “shocking” local variation in early death rates has been exposed today by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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.
A consultation on strengthening powers to seize drug cutting agents has been launched by the Home Office.
Letters from minister highlight concerns about 'legal highs' (new psychoactive substances), illegal drugs and gases (such as nitrous oxide).
ACMD invites members of the public to its open meeting on Thursday 16 May 2013
Internationally recognised addiction expert Dr A Thomas McLellan will provide independent advice on PHE’s work to tackle the problem of drug misuse.
Health Profiles give an overview of health for each local authority in England, to help improve local people’s health and reduce inequality.
Public Health England (PHE) will work to help people live longer, healthier lives by supporting and enabling local government, the NHS and the public to protect and improve health and wellbeing and reduce inequalities.
A new salt strategy sets out plans to help us cut down on the amount of salt we eat, and sets targets for the catering and takeaway sector.
Improvements in the fight against 5 major diseases, including cardiovascular disease, could save 30,000 lives by 2020, says Jeremy Hunt.
Pledge aims to better support young people lead healthier lives when they start their working career.
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