Health protection

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Services

• Find your local health protection team in England

  Get support from your local health protection team (HPT) to prevent and reduce the effect of diseases and chemical and radiation hazards

• COVID-19 vaccination: consent forms and letters for care home residents

  Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination consent forms and letter templates for care home residents.

• Rabies post exposure risk assessment form and calendar

  Risk assessment form for rabies post exposure treatment.

• COVID-19 vaccination: consent form and letter for adults

  Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination consent form and letter templates for adults who are able to consent.

• Measles, mumps, rubella: oral fluid testing forms and instructions

  Documents relating to measles, mumps or rubella (MMR) oral fluid testing.

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Guidance and regulation

• Vaccine update: issue 352, November 2024
  • Promotional
  • 9 December 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
• COVID-19: the green book, chapter 14a
  • Guidance
  • 16 September 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
• Notifiable diseases and how to report them
  • Detailed guide
  • 12 September 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
• Complete routine immunisation schedule
  • Guidance
  • 31 August 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
• Vaccination of individuals with uncertain or incomplete immunisation
  • Guidance
  • 30 August 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency

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News and communications

• Flu and COVID-19 surveillance report published
  • 19 December 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • News story
• Diagnostic Accelerator launched to speed up pandemic preparedness
  • 12 December 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • News story
• Advice accepted on spring 2025 COVID-19 vaccination programme
  • 12 December 2024
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Press release
• Public urged to get flu vaccine as hospitalisation rates rise steeply
  • 12 December 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • News story
• £100 million public-private health research boost
  • 12 December 2024
  • Department of Health and Social Care and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Notifiable diseases: causative agents reports for 2024
  • 23 December 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Research
• Carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative organisms: laboratory surveillance
  • 23 December 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Research
• Health Protection Report volume 18 (2024)
  • 20 December 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Research
• Pertussis immunisation in pregnancy: vaccine coverage (England)
  • 20 December 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Research
• RSV immunisation for older adults and pregnant women: vaccine coverage in England
  • 20 December 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010: proposed amendments
  • 12 December 2024
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 15 November 2023
• Urinary tract infection: diagnostic tools for primary care
  • 8 May 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency and NHS England
  • Open consultation
  • Date closed 02 June 2024
• Fourth health and climate adaptation report: call for evidence, summer 2024
  • 1 October 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency and NHS England
  • Closed call for evidence
• UK 5-year action plan for antimicrobial resistance 2024 to 2029
  • 8 May 2024
  • Department of Health and Social Care, The Scottish Government, Welsh Government, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Department of Health (Northern Ireland), and Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland)
  • Policy paper
• The antimicrobial potential of bacteriophages report: government response
  • 1 March 2024
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• UKHSA annual report and accounts: 2023 to 2024
  • 17 December 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Corporate report
• UKHSA Health Equity for Health Security Strategy 2023 to 2026
  • 9 December 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Corporate report
• UK Malaria Expert Advisory Group: conflict of interest statements
  • 3 December 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Corporate report
• UK Malaria Expert Advisory Group: terms of reference
  • 3 December 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Corporate report
• UKHSA Advisory Board: register of interests
  • 28 November 2024
  • UK Health Security Agency
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• UK Health Security Agency
• Department of Health & Social Care
• Office for Health Improvement & Disparities
• Department for Transport
• Centre for Climate and Health Security

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• Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Government Office for Science
• Prime Minister's Office 10 Downing Street
• Veterinary Medicines Directorate
• Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment
• Home Office
• Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee
• Cabinet Office
• HM Treasury
• Animal & Plant Health Agency
• Commission on Human Medicines
• Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
• Companies House
• Department for Education
• HM Revenue & Customs
• Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Office for Product Safety & Standards
• Office for Zero Emission Vehicles

• Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies
• Environment Agency
• Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
• Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
• Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
• Government Chemist
• Accelerated Capability Environment
• Office for Life Sciences
• Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies

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• Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
• Chemical and environmental hazards
• Emergency response
• Health emergency planning
• Health surveillance and reporting programmes
• Immunisation
• Infectious diseases
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• Migrant health
• Radiation protection
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