Cumbria and Lancashire Health Protection Unit On Call Guidelines

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These are brief guidelines designed to assist with the immediate management of common out-of-hours communicable disease and environmental health issues. They include links to other resources where appropriate, such as reference material and data collection forms. Please remember that advice is always available from the 2nd On Call Specialist from the Health Protection Unit. In addition to these guidelines, you will find useful information elsewhere on this site: Click Here to search Cumbria and Lancashire Health Protection Unit website (and also ncbugs.com, the site serving the former North Cumbria HA area) We recommend that on call personnel have access to the following books:
		Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, edited by David L Heymann. Washington (2004); American Public Health Association. ISBN 0-87553-034-6			Immunisation against Infectious Disease, edited by Dr David Salisbury and Dr Norman Begg. London (1996); Department of Health. ISBN 0-11-321815-X