Health protection

Services: detailed information

• From: Public Health England, Department for Education, and Department of Health and Social Care

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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
• Imported fever service (IFS)
• Lyme disease services
• Malaria reference laboratory (Malaria RL)
• Meningococcal reference unit (MRU)
• Mycology reference laboratory
• 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 awareness and the Tick Surveillance Scheme
• International Health Regulations 2005: UK National Focal Point
• 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 (UK SMI)

Other

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