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Webinar series profiling the science behind how we prevent, prepare for and respond to infectious diseases and environmental hazards to keep all our communities safe.
Building a resilient and responsive organisation ready for health security threats.
This Cold-Health Alert (CHA) action card details the suggested actions that providers of health or social care should consider to prepare for and respond to each type of CHA.
How to confirm a measles diagnosis, manage cases and contacts, control infection, and vaccinate young or partially-covered patients.
Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.
Information on aluminium for use in responding to chemical incidents.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) incident management guidance document and forms for trusts, hospitals and local health protection teams.
How to avoid becoming unwell while visiting a farm.
Explains the process for both primary and confirmatory testing of human samples for MERS-CoV testing, when MERS is being considered as a diagnosis.
Latest developments in vaccines, vaccination policies and procedures for immunisation practitioners.
This guidance provides advice for everyone on how to stay safe during hot weather, including how to keep your home cool.
Information on depleted uranium (DU) including what it is, its uses, health effects and protection from exposure.
IDU provides diagnostic and reference services for measles, mumps, rubella, polyomavirus (JC), parvovirus B19 (B19V), varicella-zoster virus (VZV), HHV6 and HHV7.
Knowledge and Library Services offer expert literature searches, providing eligible staff with evidence to inform public health policy, strategy, and services.
This guide is about infections that occur in people who inject drugs (PWID).
This page advises those with responsibilities for people currently sleeping rough. This includes local authority teams for emergency preparedness, public health and rough sleeping, as well as non-governmental organisations, …
Details of the national diagnostic reference levels (NDRLs), for clinicians using radiation in medicine.
A guide explaining how to refer samples to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) to confirm a preliminary diagnosis.
Leaflet providing information on the Meningococcal B (Men B) vaccination for use against Gonorrhoea.
Information for NHS occupational health departments on pertussis vaccination of healthcare workers.
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