Public Health Cambridgeshire commissions healthcare (e.g. sexual health treatment) and health improvement services (e.g. giving advice on alcohol and drug misuse, helping people stop smoking, advising on obesity and diet, and promoting physical activity, better nutrition and healthy lifestyle) in hospitals, GP practices, pharmacies and in the community.
We also carry out research and gather intelligence to support commissioning and other work designed to tackle health inequalities in Cambridgeshire.
There are five public health functions we must deliver by law, which are:
- Helping protect people from the dangers of communicable diseases and environmental threats
- Organising and paying for sexual health services
- Providing specialist public health advice to primary care services: for example GPs and community health professionals
- Organising and paying for height and weight checks for primary school children
- Organising and paying for regular health checks for Cambridgeshire people
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