STATUS OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN ENGLAND part 3

Furthermore, PHE revealed that between 2010 and 2013, the prescription of antimicrobial drugs such as antibiotics and antiviral drugs was increased by 6% in GPs and hospitals (NICE, 2014). PHE also discovered that over the 4-year period, the prescription of antibiotic in hospital inpatients increased by 12%, and other community prescription, which includes dentists rose by 32% (NICE, 2014).

Public Health England’s desire outcome in relation to this priority is to achieve reductions in the number of serious infections that are resistant to treatment.

Achieving a year-on-year decline in the incidence of tuberculosis (TB):

PHE (2015) states that TB rates in England continue to experience declination. Nevertheless, the UK TB incidence is four times higher than the US (PHE, 2014). A total of 6,250 cases of TB were recorded and identified in England in 2014, and a significant reduction on the 7,257 cases were reported and recorded in 2013.PHE (2015) further points out that the recent figures shows that there is 12 cases per 100,000 people in England, which is noticed to have reduced from 15.6 cases per 100,000 people in 2011. Correspondingly, PHE (2015) states that these are very welcoming improvement as regards the significant reduction of TB and continue the trend downwardly for the last 2 years. More so, there has been no incidence of TB reduction rate in those born in the United Kingdom. In January 2015, PHE and NHS England committed to develop collaborative plans to alleviate TB.

There shall be an extensive discussion about TB further in this report in the next section.

Public Health England’s desire outcome in relation to this priority is to achieve a year-on-year decline in tuberculosis incidence.