{"id":68984,"date":"2016-03-24T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ff582e563d984c746779fd1f001baf4d"},"modified":"2016-03-24T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T10:23:00","slug":"press-release-uniting-to-end-tb-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=68984","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Uniting to end TB in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>In the spirit of the motto of this year\u2019s World <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> Day (Unite to end <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr>), Public Health England (<abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr>) is celebrating the strong progress made towards implementing the national strategy in collaboration with NHS England and other major stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>One year ago, <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> and NHS England jointly launched the 5-year strategy to eliminate <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> as a public health problem, and announced an \u00a311.5 million investment as part of a collaborative initiative to decrease <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> cases and reduce health inequalities.<\/p>\n<p>A significant step has been the formation of 7 regional <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> control boards across England, which bring together <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr>, local authority public health, the NHS, NHS England, local commissioners and charities to work collaboratively to control <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> in their area, \u2018uniting to end <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr>\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>A key intervention from NHS England and <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> was the launch of a fully funded national testing and treatment programme for latent <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> infection for persons who recently arrived from areas of the world where <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> is common.<\/p>\n<p>All 59 of the high <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> burden areas in England have now signed up to this programme, which is based on evidence that treatment of people with dormant (\u2018latent\u2019) <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> prevents progression to the active <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> disease.<\/p>\n<p>NHS England are pleased to announce that they are providing a further \u00a310 million to fund on-going testing and treatment programmes for latent <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> infection in new entrants in the next year.<\/p>\n<p>Other key parts of the strategy are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>awareness raising and improving <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> services to socially vulnerable groups<\/li>\n<li>using innovative solutions such as mobile X-Ray unit to find and treat <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> amongst under-served populations, including the homeless<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The latest data for <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> in England show that there were 6,520 cases of <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> in 2014, a rate of 12.0 per 100,000 population, down from the peak of 15.6 cases per 100,000 population in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sarah Anderson, <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> Strategy lead said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The theme of World <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> Day is \u2018Unite to End <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr>\u2019, so today we celebrate the close collaboration between many groups to implement the Collaborative <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> Strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">It\u2019s good to see that the <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> Strategy is being implemented successfully and that we are putting into practice what we know is working.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Professor Ibrahim Abubakar, Head of <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> at <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We cannot afford to rest on our laurels while <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> rates in England still remain among the highest in Western Europe, but the implementation of our <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> Strategy shows us the way forward for the next 5 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The job is a long way from finished, but the Strategy and its key intervention areas including the implementation of systematic testing and treatment for latent <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> infection of migrants from high burden countries is expected to lead to further declines in <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> incidence in the coming years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"background-information\">Background information<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/public.govdelivery.com\/accounts\/UKHPA\/subscribers\/new?preferences=true\">Subscribe to the <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> Strategy Implementation Update<\/a> for progress on the <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> strategy.<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/tuberculosis-in-england-annual-report\">Read the <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> Tuberculosis in England report (2015)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\n<abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> is a disease caused by a bacterium (bug). When someone with active lung <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> coughs, sneezes or spits, <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> germs may be propelled into the air. <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> is not very easy to catch: usually you need close and prolonged contact with a person with active <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> in the lungs.<\/li>\n<li>In England, most <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> cases occur amongst specific risk groups, such as people with close links to countries with a high <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> burden (often settled migrants from such countries, who experience reactivation of latent <abbr title=\"tuberculosis\">TB<\/abbr> infection acquired many years previously), people with social risk factors such as homelessness, a history of imprisonment or problem drug or alcohol use, and older people.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.uk\/phe\">Public Health England<\/a> exists to protect and improve the nation\u2019s health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities. It does this through world-class science, knowledge and intelligence, advocacy, partnerships and the delivery of specialist public health services. <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> is an operationally autonomous executive agency of the Department of Health. Follow us on Twitter: <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PHE_uk\">@PHE_uk<\/a> and Facebook: <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PublicHealthEngland\">www.facebook.com\/PublicHealthEngland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_2425\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Public Health England press office<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:phe-pressoffice@phe.gov.uk\">phe-pressoffice@phe.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Telephone<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7654 8400\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours telephone<\/span><br \/>\n              020 8200 4400\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World TB Day marks one year since the Tuberculosis Strategy for England was launched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68992,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68984\/revisions\/68992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}