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PHE – Pregnancy: how to help protect you and your baby

Public Health England (PHE) has updated the leaflet that describes the vaccinations that help protect you and your baby during and after pregnancy.

This leaflet explains:

  • the flu vaccine
  • the whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine
  • the rubella (German measles) vaccine

These vaccinations are recommended for women who are pregnant. Rubella vaccination is also recommended for women who require protection before becoming pregnant again.

PHE - Pregnancy: how to help protect you and your baby

PHE – Start active, stay active: infographics on physical activity

These infographics from Public Health England (PHE) outline the duration, frequency and type of physical activity required to achieve general health benefits for different age ranges.

The infographics relate to the report by the UK’s 4 Chief Medical Officers for the NHS, local authorities and a range of other organisations designing services to promote physical activity.

Infographics include:

  • Physical activity for pregnant women: infographic and guidance
  • Physical activity benefits for babies and children (birth-5 years old): infographic
  • Physical activity for children and young people (5-18 years old): infographic
  • Physical activity benefits infographic for adults and older people
Go to PHE: Start active, stay active

PHE – Immunisations: babies up to 13 months of age

These booklets covering all immunisations for babies up to 13 months of age have been updated:

A guide to immunisations for babies up to 13 months of age (born on or before 31 July 2017)

  • This edition of the guide to immunisations for babies up to 13 months of age includes the routine childhood immunisation schedule valid from 1 July 2016. The product code to order it is 3109328.

A guide to immunisations for babies up to 13 months of age (born on or after 1 August 2017)

  • The revised edition of the guide to immunisations for babies up to 13 months including the routine childhood immunisation schedule Autumn 2017. The product code to order it is 3109328B.
Go to PHE website - Guide to immunisations for babies up to 13 months of age

Leaflets for parents are available:

Leaflets for parents - Immunisations at one year old

PHE – Duncan Selbie’s Friday Message 30 June 2017

Short weekly update from the CEO of Public Health England (PHE), including:

  • 10 years of Smokefree legislation in public places
  •  international peer review carried out by the International Association of National Public Health Institutes
  • Last week PHE and the Royal Society for Public Health published Everyday Interactions, a resource to support healthcare professionals measure the impact they are having on improving people’s health
  • PHE’s All Our Health programme supports staff to use every contact between the NHS and the public as an opportunity to encourage healthier lifestyles. This new resource has been developed by frontline staff to enable them to demonstrate how this makes a difference.
  • PHE and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) have published guidance to improve air quality across England. Most of the recommendations are for local authorities, focusing on transport, planning and public health.
  • New data on cancer survival from PHE and the Office of National Statistics
  • Breastfeeding Celebration Week. The UK has one of the lowest numbers of babies breastfed at six months in the world, and whilst we have seen a small increase in the numbers of women breastfeeding in England, we know that more babies and mothers would benefit if supported to breastfeed.
Duncan Selbie's Friday message: 30 June 2017

PHE – Duncan Selbie’s Friday Message 23 June 2017

Short weekly update from the CEO of Public Health England (PHE), including:

  • A welcome to the new minister for public health and primary care, Stephen Brine MP
  • Faculty of Public Health Annual conference, held in Telford this week, with the theme Driving change with evidence
  • This week’s Queen’s Speech
  • Culture, Health and Wellbeing International Conference in Bristol
  • Swimming provides a number of benefits for health and wellbeing for people of all ages – which makes it an accessible activity for all
  • PHE and the Local Government Association (LGA) have published a resource to support local authorities in identifying and meeting the public health needs of the armed forces in England
Duncan Selbie's Friday message: 23 June 2017

PHE – Duncan Selbie’s Friday Message 16 June 2017

Short weekly update from the CEO of Public Health England (PHE), including:

  • Congratulations to the Right Honourable Jeremy Hunt MP on his reappointment as Health Secretary
  • The latest data on smoking prevalence
  • NHS sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs)
  • New findings presented at the Cancer Data and Outcomes Conference
  • The latest edition of Health Matters focusing on child dental health
  • PHE supported the UK’s first National Clean Air Day.
Duncan Selbie's Friday message: 16 June 2017

PHE – Duncan Selbie’s Friday Message 12 April 2017

Short weekly update from the CEO of Public Health England (PHE), including:

  • the period of pre-election sensitivity comes into effect on Thursday 13 April and all organisations in receipt of public funds need to take great care during this time. And so the next Friday message will be on 5 May.
  • publication of PHE’s annual business plan for 2017/18, which replicates the high level objectives set out in the remit letter that they have received from Ministers. This plan sets out where we will focus our efforts over the next year, from building the economic case for prevention, working to create a fairer society by addressing the health gap between the richest and the poorest and continuing to invest in and promote our world class science in the UK and around the world.
  • the plan speaks to the results of PHE’s recent stakeholder survey, carried out by Ipsos MORI, which shows that their many stakeholders feel PHE is maturing as an organisation
  • the appointment of Sir Derek Myers by Ministers as Interim Chair of PHE’s Advisory Board until a permanent appointment is made.
  • PHE has been working closely with the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) – a member of the evidence-focused What Works network – to understand what works to improve children and young people’s life chances and strengthen their resilience and capabilities as early as possible.
Duncan Selbie's Friday message: 12 April 2017

PHE – Duncan Selbie’s Friday Message 7 April 2017

Short weekly update from the CEO of Public Health England (PHE), including:

  • PHE is training staff for the 3 laboratories established in Sierra Leone during the Ebola epidemic and will be handing over to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation in September. PHE will maintain a presence in Freetown for at least another year in order to quality assure the handover process.
  • Well North published its first progress report, supported by PHE. Well North is a community action programme focused on 10 communities in the north of England with persistent poor health outcomes. It brings together the statutory, voluntary and private sectors to strengthen the hand of local people in making decisions and finding new ways to help people achieve the things that really matter to them.
  • The publication of Improving Lives: helping workless families by DWP, which sets out their proposals to improve outcomes for the 1.8 million children growing up in workless families and facing multiple disadvantages.
  • The appointment of Professor Daniel Bausch as Director of the new UK Public Health Rapid Support Team, an HM Government-funded specialist team of health specialists run jointly by PHE and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who will be ready to deploy to tackle a health crisis anywhere in the world when needed.
  • Congratulations to Dr Justin Varney, PHE’s National Lead for Adult Health and Wellbeing, who will be presented with the David Harvey Award for his contribution to addressing LGBT health issues for health professionals and patients by the Gay and Lesbian Association of Doctors and Dentists (GLADD).
Duncan Selbie's Friday message: 7 April 2017

NHS Screening Programmes e-learning launched

Health Education England has worked in partnership with Public Health England to transfer the NHS Screening Programmes’ e-learning modules on to the e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH) online platform.

There are 11 NHS Screening Programmes in England. These programmes are commissioned and managed based on the recommendations provided by UK National Screening Committee.

Screening is a way of identifying people who are at higher risk of a health problem, so that treatment can be offered or information given to help them make personalised informed decisions about their care.

Healthcare professionals use e-learning as part of their training and continuing professional development and the new platform allows them to have all their NHS e-learning training in one place.

The e-learning, which was previously available on the CPD Screening website, is regularly updated to reflect national standards.

This e-learning offers comprehensive training for healthcare professionals who offer screening to:

  • pregnant women
  • newborn babies
  • adults (abdominal aortic aneurysm).

It does not currently include e-learning for Cancer Screening or Diabetic Eye Screening, but will in future.

Access the e-learning modules on the e-Learning for Healthcare website

PHE Guidance – Health matters: obesity and the food environment

New guidance published today (31 March) by PHE on obesity and the food environment.

Nearly two-thirds of adults (63%) in England were classed as being overweight (a body mass index of over 25) or obese (a BMI of over 30) in 2015. Nearly a third of children aged 2 to 15 are overweight or obese and younger generations are becoming obese at earlier ages and staying obese for longer.

PHE Obesity in Children infographic

Obesity is a complex problem with many drivers, including:

  • behaviour
  • environment
  • genetics
  • culture
New Guidance

This guidance covers: