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Public Health and Wellbeing

A collaboration between professionals in Microbiology and Infection Control serving West Wales

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Why this site?

I have made no secret within my own organisation, Public Health Wales, that as a pragmatist, I would register the domain phw.org.uk as I felt that someone from the organisation needed to grab it and at least provide a route to my employers website www.publichealthwales.org

However, as I clearly state in the About this site section, the views and opinions expressed on this site are entirely my own or those of other authors who may engage with this initiative.

I sought to establish this web site and the articles (blog) to try and reach out to the population of Wales, utilising whatever internet technologies emerge over the next few years.  As the subtitle of the site identifies, my goal is to move beyond the planning and response that my service undertakes and get upstream of problems with health protection, helping people understand how they can help themselves.

The whole arena of health and wellbeing reaches far beyond my own areas of interest: health protection, microbiology and infection control.  However, the site will tend to major on infection related issues.  If, over time, I am able to attract colleagues from other areas of public health to contribute, then perhaps we will see other aspects covered.  However, there are many area of health protection where understanding of the risks by individuals and how they should manage or respond to those risks can be highlighted and lead to a positive effect on a population basis.

My hope is that by using the various technologies available nowadays, the messages will be spread by the population themselves, who will become enabled to understand and manage the risks to their health and wellbeing that they and their families and friends face daily.

A brief introduction

Public Health and Wellbeing seeks to help individuals understand the way our health and well-being is influenced by internal personal factors and external environmental factors.

The principle focus is with infection but we will also delve into other areas. The site is available to professionals and public alike.

While the owner and other authors are public health professionsals, the site is aimed at our principle population in West Wales. Please see
About This Site for more information.

Articles by Title

  • COVID-19: still testing the wrong people March 14, 2021
  • COVID-19 testing: Wasting money on an industrial scale? December 5, 2020
  • COVID-19: All over by Christmas? November 11, 2020
  • COVID-19: The Missing Middle October 4, 2020
  • Rurality revisited May 31, 2020
  • COVID, complexity and face-masks May 17, 2020
  • COVID-19: Where next? April 26, 2020
  • Creating a new normal April 19, 2020
  • Risk assessment on the fly April 18, 2020
  • A Question of Scale April 10, 2020
  • Wales the wonderful April 11, 2019
  • Demonstrating sepsis detection in Hywel Dda April 16, 2018
  • Catheter urine sampling June 23, 2017
  • Antibiotic suppression reducing August 5, 2016
  • Little things August 1, 2016
  • Urine quality improves July 17, 2016
  • HCAI complexity rules January 27, 2016
  • Urine triggers January 26, 2016
  • Gamekeeper turned Poacher December 17, 2015
  • Following in the footsteps of Bevan? December 9, 2015
  • Who’s taking the urine? September 4, 2015
  • Care home conference April 17, 2015
  • All things must pass April 6, 2015
  • A paradigm shift in thinking September 15, 2014
  • When transparency is opaque July 12, 2013
  • Blood cultures: an important test March 18, 2013
  • Should I worry about Healthcare Associated Infections? March 14, 2013
  • Smile and the world smiles with you June 15, 2010
  • Understanding behavioural responses to infections June 13, 2010

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