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The Government is asking for health and security experts to inform the refresh of the UK's Biological Security Strategy

• Updated: 16 February 2022

Recommendations include the launch of a new traffic light system and 'green watchlist', and the introduction of travel certification.

• Updated: 9 April 2021

This takes the total amount of funding provided by the UK Government to support the effort to tackle the coronavirus in Wales to over £2.1 billion

• Updated: 15 May 2020

Lord Deighton will lead the national effort to produce essential personal protective equipment for frontline health and social care staff.

• Updated: 19 April 2020

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care addressed the British Chambers of Commerce on the role of business in tackling coronavirus.

• Updated: 5 March 2020

G20 leaders will come together to simulate a fictional drug-resistant E. Coli pandemic, as part of an international effort to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

• Updated: 4 October 2018

£20.74 million more awarded to hospitals in England.

• Updated: 15 June 2017

Transcript of a speech by Bharat Joshi, British Deputy High Commissioner Chennai at Tamil Nadu State Policy Roundtable in Chennai, Saturday 21 January 2017.

• Updated: 21 January 2017

Watch Professor Adrian Hill talk about the trials the Ebola vaccine went through at the Jenner Institute, Oxford University.

• Updated: 20 March 2015

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Letter from Sir Mark Walport and Dame Sally Davies asking for volunteers to help staff UK diagnostic laboratories in Sierra Leone.

• Updated: 18 November 2014

Statement on this week's COBR meeting on Ebola in West Africa and the Prime Minister's call with President Koroma of Sierra Leone.

• Updated: 7 October 2014

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Posters featuring advice for travellers to and from the Middle East have been distributed to UK airports and airlines.

• Updated: 30 May 2014

Includes: Blackfriars Consensus Statement on dementia, heatwave plan for 2014 issued and HPV vaccination schedule change in September 2014.

• Updated: 27 May 2014

Public Health England's advice for travellers following Typhoon Haiyan.

• Updated: 15 November 2013

Today, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt outlined radical changes to improve care for vulnerable older people and alleviate pressure on A&E.

• Updated: 10 September 2013

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

The flu plan for 2013 to 2014 has been jointly published by Public Health England, the Department of Health and NHS England.

• Updated: 26 July 2013

PHE are warning pregnant women against using a potentially poisonous product, 'Calabash chalk', as a nutritional supplement or morning sickness ‘antidote’.

• Updated: 12 July 2013

PHE maintains enhanced levels of surveillance and continues to review and update the information and advice on the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

• Updated: 4 July 2013

A dog in the city of Toledo, central Spain was confirmed to have rabies on 5 June 2013.

• Updated: 19 June 2013

Health experts from Public Health England (PHE) and Newcastle City Council have concluded their investigation into the outbreak of illness associated with the Street Spice Festival, held in Newcastle between 28 February and …

• Updated: 19 June 2013