Our purpose

Our purpose is to provide national public health leadership across NHSE and the wider system with the aim of improving and protecting the health of the population, reducing health inequalities and supporting longer health life expectancy.  This is at the heart of the 10 Year Health Plan and key to delivering the 3 shifts: from hospital to community, analogue to digital and treatment to prevention.

How

We do this through system public health leadership, public health technical advice around prevention, health improvement and reducing health inequalities.  Professional standards and workforce development, health protection, and research, creation of evidence and improving efficiency and efficacy value through population healthcare.