Policies to improve the prevention and control of infectious diseases and other environmental threats to the health of the population.
Published: 25 March 2010
The Department of Health and the Health Protection Agency, in consultation with the Chartered Institute for Environmental Health, has published guidance on updated health protection legislation covering the recently amended Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 and new regulations made under it. Except for provisions relating to diagnostic laboratories, the updated legislation comes into force on 6 April 2010. The guidance explains notification requirements of registered medical practitioners and laboratories testing human samples as well as health protection powers available to local authorities and justices of the peace
VTE is no longer an issue that can be described as 'everyone’s problem but no-one's disease.'
Reduction of avoidable death, disability and chronic ill health from Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) is the clinical priority for the NHS in 2010/11.
People who are travelling outside the UK may need to be vaccinated against some of the serious diseases that are found in other parts of the world.
The purpose of the Radiation Protection Research programme, on the health effects of exposure to ionising radiation and to electromagnetic fields, is to help guide Government policy in the field of radiation protection.
