Correspondence

PHE bulletin: 3 February 2016

• From: Public Health England
• Part of: PHE bulletin, Children's health, Smoking, and Harmful drinking
• Published: 3 February 2016

Harmful drinking, Zika virus and travel, new PHE and DH antibiotic resistance video, and changes to population screening programes highlighted.

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PHE bulletin: 3 February 2016

Ref: PHE publications gateway number 2015641 PDF, 205KB, 8 pages

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Details

The main stories are:

• Health Matters – harmful drinking and alcohol dependence
• Zika virus: travel advice for pregnant women
• Rubella screening in pregnancy to end in England
• PHE and Chief Medical Officer produce video on antibiotic resistance
• Smoking-related lung disease blights over 1 million lives in England
• NHS Health Check evaluation published
• Regional hypertension profiles published
• Screening recommendations including new bowel cancer screening test
• Abdominal aortic aneurysm programme screens one millionth man

Document information

Published: 3 February 2016

From: Public Health England

Part of: PHE bulletin Children's health Smoking Harmful drinking