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Future-proof your planning with easy-to-use tool

A new easy-to-use guide will help public bodies to think and plan better for the long-term, by keeping a clear vision and taking future trends into account.

Report highlights Public Health Wales' outstanding research achievements

Public Health Wales has published its latest annual Research and Evaluation Highlights report. 

Transfer of All Wales Perinatal Survey database to Public Health Wales

Ownership of the All Wales Perinatal Survey (AWPS) database has been transferred to Public Health Wales.

Nearly half of people in Wales ignoring life-saving bowel cancer screening test

Welsh rugby legend urges people to take the bowel screening test.

New profile looks at mental wellbeing in Wales

The number of Welsh people that reported happiness and wellbeing appears to have risen between 2013 and 2018. However, these rates are often lower than the rates in the other three UK nations.

Survey finds positive attitudes to vaccination amongst Welsh teens and their parents

Over 90 per cent of Welsh teens and parents surveyed trust vaccines and believe that they work.

Quality, Safety and Improvement Committee papers published

The next Quality, Safety and Improvement Committee meeting will be held on Tuesday 11 February 2020.

Organisations commit to protect and improve health and the natural environment in Wales

Natural Resources Wales and Public Health Wales have made a commitment to work more closely together to protect and improve the lives and health of people in Wales, as well as the natural environment they live in.

The Cost of Poor Housing in Wales

A new report, jointly published by Public Health Wales, BRE Trust and Welsh Government, was launched on the 30th January at a Welsh Government led Housing Information Group Seminar. 

Four out of five men attend potentially life-saving AAA screening

The latest annual report published for the Wales Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme (WAAASP) shows that uptake of screening increased last year with four of out of five men invited taking up their offer of screening.