Public Health and Protection
Stories from the realm of public protection.
Plan EH workforce the way NHS does
A shortage of qualified EH professionals could be addressed more strategically in a similar way to how the NHS manages future doctors and nurses.
EHPs need to ‘blow their own trumpet’
Practitioners have a vital contribution to make to society and need to make their voices heard, new pandemic book urges.
Almost a quarter of EHP jobs in England lost over a decade
Renewed interest in external health threats should generate interest in the profession for years to come, CIEH tells MPs.
Enforce mask-wearing in schools again, say unions
Concerns mount over transmissibility of Delta variant among children.
Clean air should be a child’s right, say campaigners
Children are almost as worried about air pollution as they are about COVID-19.
Indie Sage: ‘enhanced’ contact tracing in variant hotspots should be the norm across country
Group continues to push for ‘fully functional’ test, trace, isolate system.
£12m for pilot self-isolate schemes
Rapidly targeting local outbreaks and supporting people to self-isolate is crucial.
Concern over spread of Indian variant in schools
Government and PHE urged to publish the case data linked to schools and colleges.
RSPH boss personally backs call for chief EHO for England
Post would ‘allow conversations at the right level’.
Queen’s speech: will we get our Environment Bill this time around?
Time to turn these pledges into action with tangible policies and funding, argues CIEH.
