Before starting my role as NHS England’s South Regional Medical Director I spent my career working as a gynaecologist. I fully support and endorse Cervical Cancer Prevention Week (January 22-28). Cervical cancer treatment has been revolutionised since I started my career and we are now able to save many more lives than in the past. […]
Every day 9 women in the UK are diagnosed with cervical cancer and 3 women will lose their lives to the disease. Cervical cancer is the most common cancer in women under 35 but is largely preventable thanks to cervical screening and the HPV vaccination programme. But, statistics show that the number of women aged […]
NHS England is again urging people to take steps to stay well this winter and get their flu vaccination. Almost 320,000 thousand adults and children have already had the vaccine in Kent and Medway. But many people in vulnerable at risk groups have still not been vaccinated. The latest figures released by Public Health England […]
NHS England South, together with the Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), will run a third event in January to support partners improve carer health and wellbeing. Carer leads in clinical commissioning groups, local authorities, the third sector and carer representatives, are invited to join the Caring Together event on Thursday 26 January, which forms […]
With the mercury plunging below freezing NHS England South is again urging people to take steps to stay well this winter to get their flu vaccination jab. The latest vaccination uptake figures released by Public Health England for the period from 1 September until the end of November 2016 show encouraging increases compared with the […]