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A guide for local authorities and substance misuse services to help them work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
This review provides public health planners and local communities with evidence informed principles for designing healthy places.
A toolkit containing guidance, data and other resources to support professionals who are helping families affected by parental alcohol and drug problems.
A resource focusing on air pollution: sources, impacts and actions.
A series of infographics intended to help raise awareness and understanding of the relationship between health and work.
Guidance for responding to positive counts of legionella in healthcare premises, in the absence of associated cases of Legionnaires’ disease.
An evidence summary of health inequalities among older people in coastal and rural areas.
This resource outlines how health professionals can help prevent tooth decay in children under 5.
Information on who smokes, the most effective interventions to quit smoking and advice for those responsible for reducing tobacco use.
Catering guidance that offers practical advice on how to make catering affordable, healthier and more sustainable.
Advice for drug treatment and recovery workers to help them to deliver safe and effective OST to service users.
All healthcare and laboratory professionals involved in NHS newborn blood spot screening should use this process for cystic fibrosis (CF) referrals.
The public health laboratory for the Midlands is based in Birmingham.
Resources on Shigella for sexual health clinics to raise awareness of Shigella among men who have sex with men.
Advice for prescribers on the risk of misuse of pregabalin and gabapentin, and suggestions for a balanced and rational use of these medicines.
Guidance for health professionals to support people with a learning disability to access screening.
Information for clinical diagnostic laboratories regarding safety, sampling and packaging specimens associated with COVID-19.
Evaluation of the risks of exposure to ionising radiation in medical imaging examinations such as computed tomography scans (CT scans).
Information on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), effective methods to avoid unnecessary prescribing of antibiotics and advice for healthcare professionals.
Evidence and guidance on the benefits of mutual aid in preventing and treating alcohol and drug dependency.
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