Guidance

Lead poisoning: advice for the public and healthcare professionals

Advice and guidance on lead and the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of lead poisoning.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Published: 8 October 2024

Documents

Lead: background information

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Lead: information for the public

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Lead: environmental and public health intervention

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Lead: clinical intervention

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Details

This guidance is for healthcare professionals, patients and the public to aid them to identify, assess, avoid and manage the effects of legacy lead in homes and the impact on the public including children.

For information on lead for incident response, see Lead: health effects, incident management and toxicology

Published 8 October 2024