by Corinne Camilleri-Ferrante Consultant in Public Health Medicine The recently published Design of the NHS Commissioning Board (CB) “presents recommendations for the organisational design of the NHS CB”. This was followed by the Commissioning Intelligence Report, which contained the Commissioning Intelligence Model. The juxtaposition of these two documents highlights the lack of joined up thinking [...]
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No Public Health on the NHSCB
Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Implant/explant fiasco
Posted in Uncategorized on January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
by Dr John Middleton and Dr Corinne Camilleri-Ferrante (writing here in a personal capacity) Since before Christmas, women have been concerned by the revelations about faulty implants used in breast surgery. There has been much debate about whether or not these should be removed and, if so, who should foot the bill. The expert committee [...]
Sir Richard Thompson’s perspective on public health reforms
Posted in Uncategorized on December 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
‘Medical’ and ‘public’ health By Sir Richard Thompson, President of the Royal College of Physicians Prevention is better than cure. It is a cliché, but it is true. There are opportunities within public health policy to address the rising demand on the NHS and other public services. It is obvious to me that the future [...]
Concerns about future of public health nursing: Jan Maw, RCN
Posted in Uncategorized on December 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Jan Maw, Public Health Adviser at the Royal College of Nursing At this moment in time thousands of public health nurses are left in limbo, seeing changes on the ground but with no real news or updates from the people making them. The RCN is concerned that significant changes are being made to public [...]
FPH Policy Update
Posted in Health Protection, Media and public health, PH Spending, Public Health Training, Uncategorized, White Paper on November 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Mark Weiss, FPH Policy Officer As the Health and Social Care Bill makes its journey through the Committee Stage at the House of Lords, FPH continues to actively engage with members, key stakeholders, parliamentarians, as well as through its representation on strategic working groups and supported by its wider media work. Committed to ensuring [...]
Risks? What risks?
Posted in Uncategorized on September 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Alan Maryon Davis So now we know the shape of things to come. Barring a major upset with the Health & Social Care Bill, we now have a pretty firm idea of what the new public health system in England will look like. The command paper, Healthy Lives, Healthy People: update and way forward, [...]
FPH Annual Conference – Public Health in a Changing World – Your public health career – where next? Options and opportunities
Posted in Uncategorized on July 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By James Gore What are the challenges facing registrars and newly qualified public health consultants today? What training opportunities are there to fully maximise employment potential? These were the questions raised during a session at the FPH Annual Conference. Addressing the concerns and speaking on a range of topics were a varied panel including Judy [...]
Great food, great heat and great work
Posted in Disaster relief, Health Inequalities, Health Protection, Uncategorized on June 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Andy Beckingham, ex-DPH and public health consultant now living and working in India I spent much of 2010 in South India on sabbatical with Indian Institute of Public Health. Would my UK experience be useful? Or irrelevant in India? I made new friends and networks, loved the food, the heat and the work. I [...]
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