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.

For 2016/17 Public Health Wales employs 1,502 staff across Wales. The organisation’s level of income for 2016/17 totals £121m

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] Jan Williams OBE FRSPH 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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