Public Health Wales


Public Health Wales is an NHS Trust which was established on 1 October 2009 as part of a major restructuring of the health service in Wales. It aims to protect and improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities in Wales.
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Mission and resources

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. 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: