The UK Health Security Agency released a report presenting people with TB disease notified to the enhanced surveillance scheme in England and aiming to describe the epidemiology of TB in England up to the end of 2021. It is the sixth in a series of 7 reports that will describe different aspects of TB incidence, treatment and prevention in England.

New data released by Public Health England reveal that the number of people diagnosed with tuberculosis In England is at its lowest level since the 1990s.

Eight out of 10 Londoners with tuberculosis in 2012 were UK-born or had been living in the UK for at least 2 years prior to their diagnosis.

A primary-care based screening programme could help tackle TB in the UK according to a comment from Public Health England (PHE) published in The Lancet today (18 October 2013).

Millions of lives could be saved by new health treatments to combat some of the world’s most debilitating and deadly diseases, following support from the UK government.