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Health equity guidance and reports on key population groups

This collection includes reports and guidance on health equity in health protection is categorised by relevance to key population groups.

• From: UK Health Security Agency and Health Equity in Health Protection Initiative
• Published: 11 September 2025
• Last updated: 5 November 2025 — See all updates

This collection of guidance and reports on key population groups (including CORE20PLUS) relevant to health equity in health protection.

Inclusion health groups

• Tackling TB in inclusion health groups: a toolkit for a multi-agency approach
  • 8 July 2024
• Communal accommodation settings: infectious disease transmission
  • 7 May 2024
  • Research and analysis
• Acute respiratory infections: outbreaks in higher-risk communal accommodation settings
  • 16 February 2024
  • Guidance

Migrants in vulnerable circumstances

• Skin lesions in newly arrived migrants: recognising and managing infections of public health importance
  • 17 July 2025
• Managing measles in asylum seeker accommodation settings
  • 7 March 2024
  • Guidance
• Outbreak management in short term asylum seeker accommodation
  • 7 March 2024
  • Guidance
• Migrant health guide
  • 30 January 2025
  • Collection
• Acute respiratory infections: outbreaks in higher-risk communal accommodation settings
  • 16 February 2024
  • Guidance

People who use drugs

• Shooting Up: infections among people who inject drugs in the UK
  • 22 March 2023
  • Research and analysis
• People who inject drugs: infection risks, guidance and data
  • 10 October 2025
  • Guidance

Prisoners and people in places of detention

• Management of incidents and outbreaks of communicable disease in secure settings.
  • 23 September 2024
  • Guidance
• Acute respiratory illness, including flu and COVID-19 in prisons
  • 23 December 2024
  • Guidance
• Measles information for prisons and other secure settings
  • 7 June 2024
  • Guidance
• Measles: information for prison staff
  • 7 June 2024
• Mpox: prisons and places of detention
  • 15 May 2025
  • Guidance
• Management of tuberculosis in secure settings in England
  • 9 October 2025
  • Guidance
• Tuberculosis awareness posters for prisons
  • 29 July 2025
  • Guidance

Adult social care

• Supporting safer visiting in care homes during infectious illness outbreaks
  • 15 April 2024
  • Guidance
• Management of acute respiratory infection outbreaks in care homes guidance
  • 24 July 2024
• Infection prevention and control: resource for adult social care
  • 1 March 2024
• UKHSA guidelines for the management of scabies cases and outbreaks in communal residential settings
  • 23 April 2025
• Influenza-like illness (ILI): managing outbreaks in care homes
  • 24 July 2024
  • Guidance
• Principles for managing cases of suspected high consequence infectious diseases in adult social care
  • 28 May 2025
• Hot weather and health: exploring extreme heat in adult social care
  • 22 January 2024
  • Research and analysis
• Hot weather and health: exploring extreme heat in adult social care
  • 22 January 2024
  • Research and analysis

Children and young people

• Children and young people settings: tools and resources
  • 5 March 2025
• Managing specific infectious diseases: A to Z
  • 5 March 2025
• Preventing and controlling infections
  • 5 March 2025
• Supporting immunisation programmes
  • 5 March 2025
• Managing outbreaks and incidents
  • 5 March 2025
• Specific settings and populations: additional health protection considerations
  • 5 March 2025

Published 11 September 2025

Last updated 5 November 2025 + show all updates

1. 5 November 2025

   'Management of tuberculosis in secure settings in England' added.

2. 11 September 2025

   First published.