Public Health Wales

The Trust has four statutory functions: • 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; • 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 2018/19 Public Health Wales employed 1,651 staff across Wales, with an income of £135million. ==Structure==

A board 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. Jan Williams OBE FRSPH is the chair. The executive directors and three other board-level directors make up the executive team, 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. The organisation is split into seven key directorates: • Health and Well-being • Public Health Services • Policy, Research and International Development • Quality, Nursing and Allied Health Professionals • Operations and Finance • People and Organisational Development • NHS Quality Improvement and Patient Safety/1000 Lives ==See also==