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Guidance on health protection arrangements in the new public health system for local authorities and public health professionals.
Description of the methods used to develop the guideline 'Delivering better oral health: an evidence based toolkit for dental teams'.
These documents include an introduction to lasers and laser safety and guidelines on the safety of hand-held laser pointers and laser pens.
Information for people with Legionnaires’ disease about the sampling of water systems in their homes.
Midwifery visual strategy
Guidance and advice for health professionals on Mycobacterium chimaera infections associated with cardiopulmonary bypass.
Annual reports on data collected by the NHS Newborn Blood Spot (NBS) Screening Programme.
Supplementary guidance to support the radiotherapy community. Published as part of the radiotherapy newsletter of the Health Protection Agency, now part of PHE.
Guidance on reducing the risks of getting salmonella infections from reptiles.
Progress report on the sugar reduction programme between 2015 and 2018, principally for the food industry and public health bodies.
Leaflet to encourage women thinking about getting pregnant to get vaccinated against German measles.
Guidance for patients and the public and for clinical staff involved in treating pregnant women.
This document clarifies the roles and responsibilities of different organisations relating to zoonotic incidents.
The unit is a specialist in aerobiology, biocontainment and biosafety. The unit provides government departments and the commercial sector with expertise, advice and consultancy.
Proficiency testing (PT), also known as external quality assessment (EQA), allows the introduction of samples of known but undisclosed content into a laboratory’s routine testing procedure.
Specialist reference laboratory services for mycobacteriology available in the UK.
Healthcare professionals can use this leaflet to answer parents' typical questions on mild hearing loss in babies.
Role, responsibilities and training for clinical skills trainers in the NHS abdominal aortic aneurysm screening (AAA) programme.
Requirements for the quality assurance of laboratories providing antenatal and newborn screening services by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS).
This guidance is for breast screening services to help them advise women seeking breast screening who are not registered with a GP practice.
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