3rd November 2017
Short weekly update from the CEO of Public Health England (PHE), including:
- handover of three PHE laboratories in Sierra Leone, all refurbished by PHE to UK standards and funded by UK Aid
- PHE’s National Congenital Anomaly and Rare Disease Registration Service(NCARDRS) collects data on rare diseases to improve surveillance and patient care, inform healthcare planning and support research
- PHE hosted Making It Happen, a stakeholder event for the drug treatment sector to discuss two significant new publications: the 2017 Drug Strategy and the Drug Misuse and Dependence UK Clinical Guidelines
- PHE report which shows the work of PHE in supporting the UK in implementing the Sendai Framework including its obligations under the International Health Regulations
- PHE has been recently nominated for the ‘Business in the Community Best Employers for Race Award 2017’
