1/ My take on today's @Policy_Exchange report calling for a New Deal for Public Health

Generally - this is helpful, especially coming from a right of centre think tank which the government listens to.

Key recommendations are…

policyexchange.org.uk/publication/sa… 2/ ▶ Govt should publish a public health strategy – how to achieve 5 extra years of healthy life by 2035.

The target is v ambitious, particularly with COVID-19 but it's a laudable ambition and needs a strategy across the whole of govt.

More from us: health.org.uk/publications/r…

1/ My personal thoughts on plans to get rid of @PHE_uk and ‘replace’ it with a ‘pandemic response agency’…as if that’s all that we need from a national public health body!

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/… 2/ PHE employs 5,500 people doing a huge range of public health functions across the country – make no mistake, it will take years for the system to recovery from this decision. Abolishing it now is massive disruption at the worst possible time.

Looking for some holiday reading? Here's my list of:

10 Classic Papers Everyone in Public Health Should Read

Please add your own - I'm looking for old ideas...

@annaghartley @felly500 @Jeanelleuk @jimmcmanusph @doctorblooz @hall_tom_david @VHobart @SimonCapewell99 1/ Smoking and carcinoma of the lung
Doll and Hill (1950)

Established the link between smoking and cancer in 1950. STILL our biggest public health problem in 2020.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…