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The Government’s Living with COVID-19 plan set out how the UK would transition from managing COVID-19 as an emergency response to living with the virus, whilst ensuring we retain the resilience and contingency capabilities to deal with the uncertainty around the future path of the pandemic. This transition is underpinned by the success of the … Read more
As Summer approaches, we look forward to travelling, taking holidays, attending events and enjoying more time outdoors. There are some simple things we can all do to stay safe throughout summer and to keep illness at bay as we enjoy the longer days and better weather. COVID-19 COVID-19 has not gone away, we are all … Read more
Two years ago, we launched the SARS-CoV2- Immunity and Reinfection Evaluation Study, known as SIREN, the largest of its kind globally. The study set out to find answers to some of the most important questions about COVID-19. The SIREN study monitors infections in a large group of healthcare workers who provide samples for regular PCR … Read more
Breathing in polluted air affects our health, reduces our life expectancy, and costs our society billions of pounds each year. It is estimated that two million healthy life years are lost in Europe due to the impacts of poor air quality, making the need to improve air we breathe in and reduce the pollution we … Read more
UKHSA is urgently investigating a number of monkeypox cases recently identified in the UK. You can find our updates on this GOV.UK page. Monkeypox is a viral infection usually associated with travel to West Africa. This is the first time that there has been suspected community transmission in the UK without known links to countries … Read more
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), English Nurse and pioneer of modern medicine in the hospital at Uskudar (Scutare) during the Crimean War, 1854-1856. Each year, on 12 May, I take great pride in celebrating and showing my appreciation for nursing colleagues working across the health and care system on International Nurses Day. This date marks the birth … Read more
Since January 2022, we have detected an increase in the number of acute (sudden onset) hepatitis cases in the UK in children aged 10 and under. Hepatitis is a condition that affects the liver and can be caused by infection with a virus. The viruses that normally cause hepatitis (hepatitis viruses A to E) have … Read more
Throughout the pandemic UKSHA has published over 100 weekly national flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports. These reports provide an important picture of the pandemic by detailing numbers of confirmed cases, outbreaks, hospitalisations and deaths – where possible broken down by factors including age, gender, region and setting. As we learn to live with COVID-19, and … Read more
Lyme disease is an infection caused by a type of bacteria that is carried by some species of ticks. People can get the disease if bitten by an infected tick. People are most likely to be exposed to ticks when spending time outdoors in green spaces. Ticks and the potential risk of Lyme disease shouldn’t … Read more
The pandemic is not yet over, but the success of the vaccination programme means the majority of people who become infected with COVID-19 will no longer become seriously ill. However, being vaccinated does not make you immune to infection or prevent you from passing infection on. Learning to live with COVID relies on us all … Read more