Public Health England Sample Clauses

Public Health England. Xxxx normally lead the epidemiological investigation and the specialist health protection response to public health incidents and has responsibility to declare a health protection incident, major or otherwise. PHE would Chair the ‘Outbreak’ Incident Management Team (OIMT) meetings/teleconferences and keep the health protection risks under review during the incident, providing expert health protection advice to the OIMT (drawing on specialist advice from regional and national PHE and other experts as required). PHE will normally coordinate the public communications/ media response as required in collaboration and agreement with other local organisations represented in the OIMT Public Health England provides public health EPRR leadership and scientific and technical advice at all levels, working with NHS, national and local government to protect the public against infectious diseases and minimise health impact from hazards. Appropriate secretariat support will also be provided by PHE.
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Public Health England. ‌ PHE is an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care. PHE’s mission is working with national and local government, industry and the NHS, is to protect and improve the nation’s health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities. Functions delivered by the National Health and Justice team in Public Health England include disease surveillance, response to communicable disease incidents and outbreaks (in partnership with PHE Centre Health Protection Teams, who will lead the response at a local level), production of evidence-based guidelines, and advice to policy makers, commissioners and service providers on addressing public health issues, including substance misuse services. Specifically this includes: • Developing the evidence-base to support commissioning and service provision through primary research, audit, collection and analysis of data, publication and dissemination of information, reports and research studies; • Identifying emerging health threats to detainees and staff working in IRCs and providing advice on their management or mitigation; • Producing evidence-based guidelines and advice on all aspects of public health in IRCs, including health protection, health improvement and healthcare public health; • Developing resources and tools to enable commissioners and service providers to assess the quality of services and how well they meet the needs of the people who use them (including supporting the development of new information systems and Health and Justice Indicators of Performance (HJIPs)); • Leading the development of disease surveillance and alerting systems to detect outbreaks of infectious diseases in IRCs • Leading the management and control of outbreaks of infectious diseases; • Supporting partner organisations in developing and delivering appropriate screening and immunisation programmes according to the needs of the population and consistent with PHE’s role in the wider community; • Supporting emergency preparedness, resilience and response through development of training and exercise resources as well as providing ‘structured debriefs’ for incidents to capture learning for the wider system; • Supporting partners in conducting health needs assessments or other formal public health activities to assess the health and wellbeing of people in IRCs, including developing ‘toolkits’ and information resources which can be used by those undertaking work with IRCs; • Working with partners to ensure continuity of care across ...
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Public Health England. 1.37. Public Health England (PHE) is an Executive Agency of the Department of Health. PHE exists to protect and improve the nation’s health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. It does this through world class science, knowledge and intelligence, advocacy, partnerships and the delivery of specialist public health services. 38 This agreement is formally set out in the published NOMS Service Specification ‘Enablers of National Co-commissioned Services in Prisons’ see xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxx- specifications-for-secure-and-decent-custody 39 A review of escort and bedwatch and in-reach services is one of the shared Development Priorities for 2015-16. 40 Where specialist diet or additional remedial physical exercise is specifically recommended on clinical grounds then this should be funded by the NHS 41 xxx.xxx.xx/xxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx
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Public Health England. PHE will lead the epidemiological investigation and the specialist health protection response to public health incidents and has responsibility to declare a health protection incident, major or otherwise. PHE would normally Chair the Incident Management Team (IMT) meetings/teleconferences and keep the health protection risks under review during the incident, providing expert health protection advice to the IMT (drawing on specialist advice from regional and national PHE and other experts as required). PHE will normally coordinate the public communications/ media response as required in collaboration and agreement with other local organisations represented in the IMT.
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