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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 ...
Change4Life is a public health programme in England which began in January 2009, [1] run by Public Health England. It was the country's first national social marketing campaign to tackle the causes of obesity. [2] In 2021, it was brought under the "Better Health" brand [3]
Health, Civilization and the State: A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times (1998), good coverage of the British record in ch. 8-9. Rosen, George A History of Public Health (1958). online, a standard scholarly history. Sheppard, Francis. London 1808-1870: The infernal wen (1971, reprint 2022) online, see pp 247–296.. Siena, Kevin.
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 ...
The Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 (c. 22) is a piece of legislation for England and Wales which requires physicians to notify the 'proper officer' of the local authority of any person deemed to be suffering from a notifiable disease. [1] [2] It also provides powers to isolate infected individuals to prevent the spread of such a ...
NHS Test and Trace was a government-funded service in England, established in 2020 to track and help prevent the spread of COVID-19.The programme is part of the UK Health Security Agency; the service and the agency are headed by Jenny Harries.
NHS England coronavirus poster, February 2020 [22] NHS England poster for the "Catch it, Bin it, Kill it" slogan which has been revived in the fight against COVID-19. The first published government statement on the COVID-19 situation in Wuhan was released on 22 January 2020 by the Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England. [23]
The full statutory instrument, SI 2020/350, as initially enacted. The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020/350), informally known as "the Lockdown Regulations", was a statutory instrument (SI) enacted on 26 March 2020 by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.