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Services

1. Find your local health protection team in England

   Get support from your local health protection team (HPT) to prevent and reduce the effect of diseases and chemical and radiation hazards

2. Deprivation of liberty safeguards: resources

   Resources for local authorities to support their roles as supervisory bodies for the Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS).

3. Form N16A: Application for injunction (General form)

   Use this general injunction form to ask the court to order a person, company or organisation to do something or not to do something.

4. Notifiable diseases: form for registered medical practitioners

   Suspected case of reportable disease: form to notify the proper officer of local health protection team (HPT).

5. Personal import/export licence application form

   Requires the controlled drug(s) prescribed by a medical practitioner to be listed and the name of the person in possession of them to be given.

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Guidance and regulation

1. Controlled drugs list
   • Guidance
   • 1 June 2017
   • Home Office
2. Complete routine immunisation schedule
   • Guidance
   • 12 July 2019
   • Public Health England
3. Zika virus: country specific risk
   • Detailed guide
   • 19 July 2019
   • Public Health England
4. Vaccination of individuals with uncertain or incomplete immunisation status
   • Guidance
   • 22 August 2019
   • Public Health England
5. The Eatwell Guide
   • Guidance
   • 25 September 2018
   • Public Health England

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News and communications

7 September 2019 — News story

New physical activity guidelines issued by UK Chief Medical Officers

Department of Health and Social Care

1. Early access to medicines scheme: expired scientific opinions
   • 5 September 2019
   • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
   • Decision
2. Suspended and revoked licences and registrations for manufacturers and wholesalers of medicines and ingredients
   • 4 September 2019
   • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
   • Decision
3. Human and veterinary medicines: register of licensed manufacturing sites
   • 4 September 2019
   • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
   • Decision
4. Human and veterinary medicines: register of licensed wholesale distribution sites
   • 4 September 2019
   • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
   • Decision

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Research and statistics

1. Radiation workers and their health: national study
   • 6 September 2019
   • Public Health England
   • Research
2. Respiratory infections: laboratory reports 2019
   • 6 September 2019
   • Public Health England
   • Research
3. Hepatitis C in England and the UK
   • 6 September 2019
   • Public Health England
   • Research
4. MRSA, MSSA and Gram-negative bacteraemia and Clostridioides difficile infection: annual data
   • 6 September 2019
   • Public Health England
   • Official statistics
5. Clostridioides difficile: annual trends in voluntary surveillance
   • 6 September 2019
   • Public Health England
   • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

1. UK SMI ID 7: identification of Staphylococcus species, Micrococcus species and Rothia species
   • 2 September 2019
   • Public Health England
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 16 September 2019
2. Drugs policy and medicinal cannabis report: government response
   • 6 September 2019
   • Department of Health and Social Care
   • Policy paper
3. Review of Informed Choice for Cancer Registration: NCRAS response
   • 16 August 2019
   • Public Health England
   • Policy paper
4. Report into the public health effects of gambling duty provisions in Finance Act 2019
   • 13 August 2019
   • HM Treasury
   • Policy paper
5. PACAC inquiry into eating disorders: government response
   • 13 August 2019
   • Department of Health and Social Care
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. PHE government procurement card spend over £500: July 2019
   • 3 September 2019
   • Public Health England
   • Transparency
2. PHE prompt payment data: 2019 to 2020
   • 2 September 2019
   • Public Health England
   • Transparency
3. PHE spend over £25,000: June 2019
   • 30 August 2019
   • Public Health England
   • Transparency
4. PHE spend over £25,000: May 2019
   • 30 August 2019
   • Public Health England
   • Transparency
5. PHE spend over £25,000: April 2019
   • 30 August 2019
   • Public Health England
   • Transparency

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Organisations

1. Public Health England
2. Department of Health & Social Care
3. Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
4. Home Office
5. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

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1. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
2. Department for Work & Pensions
3. Department for Education
4. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
5. Cabinet Office
6. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
7. Government Office for Science
8. Central Arbitration Committee
9. Ministry of Defence
10. Ministry of Justice
11. Department for Transport
12. Department for International Development
13. HM Treasury
14. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
15. National Information Board
16. Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment
17. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
18. Animal & Plant Health Agency
19. Veterinary Medicines Directorate
20. Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee
21. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
22. Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
23. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
24. Government Equalities Office
25. HM Revenue & Customs
26. National Data Guardian
27. Academy for Social Justice
28. Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment
29. Bona Vacantia
30. Commission on Human Medicines
31. Government Legal Department
32. Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service
33. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
34. Accelerated Access Review
35. Attorney General's Office
36. Civil Nuclear Constabulary
37. Civil Service
38. Companies House
39. Department for International Trade
40. Government Digital Service
41. The Insolvency Service
42. Life Sciences Organisation
43. Marine Management Organisation
44. Maritime & Coastguard Agency
45. Office for Civil Society
46. Office for Disability Issues
47. Office for Product Safety & Standards
48. Office of the Public Guardian
49. Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain

1. Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
2. Innovate UK
3. Government Chemist
4. Environment Agency
5. Military Aviation Authority
6. Office for Life Sciences
7. Industrial Injuries Advisory Council
8. Natural England
9. Forensic Science Regulator
10. The Charity Commission
11. HM Prison Service
12. Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
13. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
14. Marine Accident Investigation Branch
15. Ofsted
16. Sellafield Ltd

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