Skip to main content

GOV.UK uses cookies to make the site simpler. Find out more about cookies

Search

Search

Home
Health protection

Health protection Services

From:: Public Health England

Subscribe to email alerts
See latest changes to this content

Local health protection services

Contacts: PHE regions and local centres

Laboratories and reference facilities

Specialist and reference microbiology: laboratory tests and services
Anaerobe reference unit (ARU): Cardiff
Bacteriology reference department (BRD)
Brucella reference unit (BRU)
Clostridium difficile ribotyping network (CDRN) service
Cryptosporidium reference unit (CRU)
Food, water and environmental laboratories
Genomic Services and Development Unit (GSDU)
Imported fever service (IFS)
Lyme borreliosis service
Malaria reference laboratory (Malaria RL)
Meningococcal reference unit (MRU)
Mycology reference laboratory (Mycology RL)
National leptospirosis service
National mycobacterium reference service- South (NMRS-South)
Primary care guidance: diagnosing and managing infections
Public health laboratories
Rare and imported pathogens laboratory (RIPL)
Toxoplasma reference laboratory (TRL)
UK national reference laboratory for food microbiology
Virus reference department (VRD)

Health surveillance and reporting programmes

Mosquitoes: surveillance and recording
Tick surveillance scheme
Human animal infections and risk surveillance group (HAIRS)
International Health Regulations 2005: UK National Focal Point communications protocol
Notifications of infectious diseases (NOIDs)

Research, testing and standards

Biosafety unit
Genomic research unit
Proficiency testing for food, water and environmental microbiology
Standards for microbiology investigations (SMI)

Other

Bioinformatics: online tools
Culture collections
Health protection training
Public health in prisons and secure settings
Radiation: products and services

Help us improve GOV.UK

Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.

What you were doing What went wrong

Services and information

Benefits
Births, deaths, marriages and care
Business and self-employed
Childcare and parenting
Citizenship and living in the UK
Crime, justice and the law
Disabled people
Driving and transport

Education and learning
Employing people
Environment and countryside
Housing and local services
Money and tax
Passports, travel and living abroad
Visas and immigration
Working, jobs and pensions

Departments and policy

How government works
Departments
Worldwide
Policies
Publications
Announcements

Support links

Help
Cookies
Contact
Terms and conditions
Rhestr o Wasanaethau Cymraeg
Built by the Government Digital Service

Open Government Licence

All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated

© Crown copyright