Our purpose is to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all.

We do this by ensuring that the healthcare workforce has the right numbers, skills, values and behaviours to support the delivery of excellent healthcare and health improvement to patients and the public. Read the NHS’s first ever workforce plan; a once-in-a-generation opportunity to put staffing on a sustainable footing and improve patient care.

We work with the wider NHS and our partners to optimise the use of digital technology, research and innovation, and to deliver value for money and increased productivity and efficiency.

We are responsible for running the vital national IT systems which support health and social care, and the collection, analysis, publication and dissemination of data generated by health and social care services to improve outcomes for patients.

The establishment of integrated care boards within integrated care systems, which are made up of public services that provide health and care, means that NHS England is changing the way it works to best support and empower local system partners to deliver on their responsibilities.

Our NHS England Operating Framework sets out how we are supporting systems and providers to lead locally to improve the health of the population, improve the quality of patient care, tackle inequalities and deliver care more efficiently. It describes our six longer-term aims:

1. Longer healthy life expectancy.
2. Excellent quality, safety and outcomes.
3. Excellent access and experience.
4. Equity of healthy life expectancy, quality, safety, outcomes, access and experience.
5. Value for taxpayers’ money.
6. Support to society, the economy and environment.

WDF is a leading funder of diabetes prevention and care projects in low- and middle-income countries. 

The World Diabetes Foundation was founded in 2002 as an independent foundation by Novo Nordisk A/S, and today is a leading global funder of diabetes prevention and care projects in low- and middle-income countries. 

Our vision:

We alleviate human suffering related to diabetes among those in greatest need.

Our mission:

• We create partnerships to assist people with diabetes and those at risk, acting as a catalyst
  to help others do more
• We link people and resources to educate and advocate globally and provide care locally
• Our priority is to support the poorest of the poor
• We empower local communities to achieve sustainable solutions and yield replicable models
• We encourage innovative strategies to prevent diabetes and its consequences

The mission of the NCD Alliance is to unite civil society and drive action on noncommunicable disease (NCD) prevention and care, leaving no one behind.

NCDA brings together 300 members in 81 countries, including a network of 66 national and regional NCD alliances, to form a respected, united and credible global civil society movement. Our community includes member organisations addressing NCDs and their risk factors, national and regional NCD alliances and people living with NCDs.

The Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) is the key independent European organisation dedicated to improving and protecting the public health by strengthening education and training of public health professionals for both practice and research.

The main functions of the Association are:

To support the professionalisation of the public health workforce in Europe, whilst respecting the diversity of national and regional contexts in which each school of public health operates, and thus:

To sustain capacity building in public health, so that it balances with national and European population health challenges and threats, and is supported by best standards of public health education and training, scientific research, and practice.

The general objectives of ASPHER are:

To sustain, in theory and practice, member schools in achieving their missions of education, training, scientific research and service;

To develop models for public health education and training at all academic and professional levels, and the interaction of education and training with population health, health systems and services;

To promote structured processes of sharing evidence-based public health models of innovation and good practice;

To build coalitions with other programmes and public health organisations whose mission is to improve public health, specifically in an effort to put forth high standards in and strengthen public health education and training and to improve the quality of the public health workforce in Europe and its competitiveness globally.

ASPHER is a membership organisation of institutions, spread across EU and wider across WHO European Region, which are collectively concerned with the education and training, and professionalism, of those entering and working within the public health workforce. It promotes activities which foster exchange of information and best practices amongst its members in an effort to achieve high standards of public health education and training across Europe.

Formally established in 1965, Umeå University is a comprehensive university covering research and education in medicine, science and technology, social sciences, arts and humanities, and educational sciences. 

Our cohesive campus environment enables a dynamic and open culture with a strong sense of community.

As a knowledge-driven organisation, Umeå University is striving to provide students and staff with unique opportunities for learning and development – whilst simultaneously serving society with new knowledge and creative citizens.

To alleviate and prevent, as far as possible, the suffering caused by cancer in people, wherever they live and whatever their personal circumstances.

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UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

The Health Emergency Preparedness and Response (HERA) department’s mission is to prevent, detect, and rapidly respond to health emergencies.

HERA, created in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, will anticipate threats and potential health crises, through intelligence gathering and building the necessary response capacities.

When an emergency hits, HERA will ensure the development, production and distribution of medicines, vaccines and other medical countermeasures – such as gloves and masks – that were often lacking during the first phase of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

HERA is a key pillar of the European Health Union announced by President von der Leyen in her 2021 State of the Union address and will fill a gap in the EU's health emergency response and preparedness.

HERA was launched as a new European Commission Directorate-General on 16 September 2021.