Our responsibility for Public Health

Our Public Health team is focused on work to address the health and wellbeing needs of people in Leicester.

What is our role?

We have a control of five mandatory functions:

• Health protection
• Public health advice to the NHS
• The national child measurement programme
• Sexual health
• NHS health check assessment.

We aim to improve the city's public health and reduce premature mortality through raising awareness; research; consultations; behaviour change campaigns; information exchange and practical action.

We will commission further services including campaigns to prevent cancer and long-term conditions, schemes to tackle obesity, help people give up smoking, and public mental health services. A full list of these can be found on the Department of Health website.

Reports, strategies and board papers

The following pages detail the work of our Public Health team:

• Data, reports and information
• Health and Wellbeing Board
• Oral Health papers and resources
• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
• Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment
• Leicester Health and Wellbeing Survey
• Leicester Health Profiles.

You can also download our most recent annual report at the bottom of the page.

If you have problems accessing or viewing the Mental wellbeing - Director of public health annual report (2018) below, please email PH-Admin@leicester.gov.uk.