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PHE launches ‘Health Matters’ resource for local public health professionals
The resource was launched at PHE’s annual conference in Warwick on 15 September, with the first resource ‘Health Matters: smoking and quitting in England’.
The resource brings together local and national level data, policy and programme expertise in an easily accessible package and also includes campaigning and social marketing resources to support health professionals in making effective public health intervention.
Other resources will follow, dealing with obesity, alcohol, antimicrobial resistance, tuberculosis, early years and dementia.
PHE chief executive Duncan Selbie, said: “Health Matters is part of our mission to provide user-friendly advice and guidance and, in particular, on what works. This is the first in the series and we hope it will prove helpful to practitioners and policy makers in helping people to quit smoking.”
Dr Andy McEwen, executive director of the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training, said: “Health matters but occasionally we need to remind ourselves of why it matters. The case still has to be made for commissioning effective stop smoking services and Health Matters is a useful, cutting edge resource that helps the national message be delivered at a local level.”
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