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The Act established Public Health England as an executive body accountable to the Secretary of State for Health. It took over public health activity from the department and from the regional strategic health authorities (which were abolished), and all activities of the Health Protection Agency, the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse ...
Public Health and Politics in the Age of Reform: Cholera, the State and the Royal Navy in Victorian Britain (2006). Mosley, Stephen. The Chimney of the World: A History of Smoke Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester (2001). Niemi, Marjaana. Public Health and Municipal Policy Making: Britain and Sweden, 1900–1940 (Ashgate, 2007 ...
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.It is responsible for government policy on health and adult social care matters in England, along with a few elements of the same matters which are not otherwise devolved to the Scottish Government, Welsh Government or Northern Ireland Executive.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, the minister was placed in charge of public health policy. [1] The office of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment was created later and was held by Nadhim Zahawi from 28 November 2020 to 15 September 2021. [ 2 ]
The People's health. 1830-1910 (1979). Warren, Michael D. A chronology of state medicine, public health, welfare and related services in Britain 1066-1999 (2000) online; Webster, Charles. The National Health Service : a political history (2002) and that'll work better. Wohl, Anthony S. Endangered lives: public health in Victorian Britain (1983 ...
Duncan Selbie (born 1962/3) [1] is a British government official who is a senior advisor to the Department of Health and Social Care on global and public health. [2] He served as Chief Executive of Public Health England from its foundation in 2013 [3] until he was removed in August 2020 [4] by the Govt which in 2021 formed it into the UK Health Security Agency. [2]
Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings on Public Transport) (England) Regulations 2020 Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885 Human Medicines (Coronavirus and Influenza) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
Public Health England (PHE) states that one in four hospital patients smoke tobacco products, higher than the proportion in the general population, and smoking causes 96,000 deaths per year in England and twenty times the number of smoking-related illnesses. PHE wants hospitals to help smokers quit.