Hello, I am one of the Health Protection Nurse Practitioners working in the Greater Manchester Health Protection team in Public Health England North West. Health protection covers communicable disease surveillance/control, emergency preparedness, resilience and response, and environmental public health and …
Meningcoccal Group B bacteria (MenB) is rare, with between 400 and 1,200 cases each year in England, with infants under one year of age most at risk. Although rare, MenB can cause meningitis, an infection of the membranes that surround …
Rabies is a vaccine preventable disease that occurs in more than 150 countries. WHO state that an average of 60,000 people die annually from rabies and report more than 15 million people receive post exposure prophylaxis every year. RIGS, the …
The flu vaccine is one of the mainstays of winter preparedness as flu viruses normally start circulating more over the winter months. The vaccine is offered mainly to three groups of people. Firstly those at highest risk such as the elderly, …
As the new intake of Year 7’s settled into life at their boarding school in West Yorkshire, members of the West Yorkshire Health Protection Team and the local TB services embarked on planning the yearly TB awareness raising session. The …
In the late 1980s, tuberculosis (TB) cases were fewer than 6000 in the UK and there was hope that the disease would be eliminated as a public health threat. This had fallen from over 100,000 cases at the start of …
As a midwife I have a long association with the NHS antenatal and newborn screening programmes and the broader public health agenda to support maternal and child health. I currently work as the senior quality assurance adviser across the north …
Hello, I am a Senior Health Protection Nurse Practitioner. I work for Public Health England North West. I lead a great team of practitioners. Health Protection Practitioners come from a variety of professional backgrounds including: nursing, health visiting, environmental health …
Reducing drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in England is a key ‘area for action’ in the collaborative TB Strategy, and Public Health England and NHS England are working together to take this forward. Prompt identification, commencement of treatment and adherence to a …
Historically, public health was primarily concerned with the management of sanitation and disease. Over the twentieth century, the focus of public health shifted towards how individuals respond to health concerns. This includes how we as individuals manage and look after …
