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, [...]
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Risks? What risks?
Posted in Uncategorized on September 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Interview with Julian Le Grand
Posted in Uncategorized on July 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Julian Le Grand, Professor of Social Policy at LSE, talks to FPH’s Matthew Kilgour about spending cuts, the NHS and how public health can use the ‘nudge agenda’.
Experts discuss challenges of ageing population
Posted in Ageing, Public Health Events, Uncategorized, tagged Ageing society, Andrew Harrop, Dame Carol Black, Yvonne Coull on July 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Jessica Becker How can one extend work life while meeting the needs of an ageing workforce? What can be done to promote age-friendly communities? And how is the recession impacting on the care for the elderly? Dame Carol Black, the National Director of Health Work and Wellbeing, Andrew Harrop, Director of Policy and Public [...]
Health Secretary speaks at FPH Conference 2010
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew Lansley, FPH conference, public health on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Andrew Lansley this morning revealed his personal ambition for a new Public Health Service, where public health is something that is taken seriously at all levels – nationally, locally, and as individuals. The Secretary of State for Health announced that the Prime Minister has agreed to the formation of a Cabinet Sub-Committee on Public Health, [...]
FPH Conference 2010 streaming live
Posted in Uncategorized on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On the FPH channel: http://tinyurl.com/394op6l
FPH Conference – Watch this space tomorrow
Posted in Uncategorized on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There’ll be a flurry of activity here tomorrow (Wednesday 7 July) and Thursday, with blog posts, video interviews and, potentially, live streaming from our Annual Conference at Imperial College. It’s promising to be an exciting event with lots of debate and discussion about the future of public health so watch this space from tomorrow morning [...]
Public Health Today – June 2010
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Lindsey Davies, Public Health Today, QIPP on July 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The June 2010 edition of FPHs quarterly magazine, Public Health Today, is now available and full of the usual mix of health news, interviews, opinion and reportage. In anticipation of the Faculty’s annual conference (for more info on the conference visit www.fphconference.org) key note speaker Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson speaks about her involvement with the Women’s [...]
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