Public Health Wales

Public Health Wales was established as an NHS trust on 1 October 2009.

Public Health Wales aims^[1] to protect and improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities in Wales. It delivers four statutory functions:^[2]

• Provide and manage public health, health protection, healthcare improvement, health advisory, child protection and microbiological laboratory services and services relating to the surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases;^[3]
• Develop and maintain arrangements for making information about matters related to the protection and improvement of health in Wales available to the public; to undertake and commission research into such matters and to contribute to the provision and development of training in such matters;
• Undertake the systematic collection, analysis and dissemination of information about the health of the people of Wales in particular including cancer incidence, mortality and survival; and prevalence of congenital anomalies; and
• Provide, manage, monitor, evaluate and conduct research into screening of health conditions and screening of health related matters.

As of 2014 Public Health Wales employs 1,248 staff across Wales. The organisation’s level of income for 2013/14 totals £102.9m

A Board^[4] is responsible for Public Health Wales’ strategic direction, governance framework, organisational culture and development and stakeholder relations. It comprises a Chair, six Non Executive Directors and five Executive Directors, led by a Chief Executive.^[5] Professor Sir Mansel Aylward is the Chair.

The Executive Directors and three other Board level Directors make up the Executive Team,^[6] which manages Public Health Wales. Each year Public Health Wales is required to conduct a self-assessment and demonstrate improvement against the Healthcare Standards for Wales.^[7]

External links

• Public Health Wales website

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