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New centres will provide quicker diagnoses to patients – a step forward in the government’s plan to roll out 160 centres by 2025.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Folic acid to be added to non-wholemeal flour across the UK to help prevent life-threatening brain and spinal conditions in foetuses.
The alert level has been reduced from 3 to 2.
Head of the HRT Taskforce Madelaine McTernan presents key recommendations for future management of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) supply.
Students should get up to date with 3 vaccines: Men ACWY (meningitis), MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) and, for female students, HPV, before the start of the new term.
Provisions for at home early medical abortions to be made permanent from 30 August 2022.
Eligible patients offered smaller but equally effective doses of the vaccine, stretching existing supplies to protect more people.
Letter from UKHSA chief executive Professor Dame Jenny Harries to UK's Directors of Public Health.
More than 25,000 people have already been vaccinated to contain the monkeypox outbreak in the UK.
The latest UKHSA technical briefing has been published, which shows a decline in the number of new cases of monkeypox being identified.
The adapted COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna targets two different coronavirus variants: the original virus from 2020 and the Omicron variant
With high temperatures forecast for much of the country this week, UKHSA has issued a heat-health alert.
Letter from Health Minister Maggie Throup confirming UK Health Security Agency’s role and priorities for the financial year 2022 to 2023.
As further poliovirus has been detected in sewage, JCVI recommends that polio vaccine booster doses should be offered to children across London.
This letter provides information on the polio vaccination campaign
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has published the latest technical briefing, which shows early signs that the outbreak is plateauing.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation says 1 dose shown to be just as effective as 2 at preventing cancers caused by HPV in adolescents.
Regular UKHSA updates on the ongoing investigation into higher than usual rates of liver inflammation (hepatitis) in children across the UK.
The UK Health Security Agency, led by our West Midlands team, urges visitors taking part to be mindful of the latest health and hot weather advice.
In light of clinical experience during this outbreak, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is updating the case definition for monkeypox.
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