Health Protection Agency News Feed

The Board of the Health Protection Agency is consulting stakeholders on its response to the latest recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP).

The Health Protection Agency welcomes the Chief Medical Officer's (CMO) MMR catch up programme, which urges Primary Care Trusts and GPs to identify individuals not up to date with their MMR and offer catch-up immunisation to reduce the risk of a measles epidemic.

The Health Protection Agency has set up a new centre to study the possible health effects of human exposure to nanoparticles. The National Nanotoxicology Research Centre (NNRC) is being developed at the Agency’s Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards (CRCE) at Chilton in Oxfordshire. The Agency is collaborating with universities and the Medical Research Council's (MRC) Toxicology Unit to develop the centre and its research programme.

A diverse and engaging programme has just been announced for this year’s Health Protection Agency conference, which will be held at Warwick University between September 15th to September 17th.

The European Space Agency recently announced that they had appointed the SEA (Group) Ltd to lead a team of experts, including the Health Protection Agency, to define the requirements and initial concept for a Biocontainment Facility to safely handle any samples which may be brought back from Mars.

The Health Protection Agency has today published its latest quarterly figures on MRSA (meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) bloodstream infections and C. difficile (Clostridium difficile) infections.