 | Announcements |
| Lead Areas |
| How we fit in the Health Protection Agency |
| SHPU Announce email list and web site |
| People |
| Office addresses and phone numbers, and how to find us. |
| A note about email |
| Secure communication |
See main HPA web site re avian flu.
There have been many cases (confirmed or very likely to be confirmed) of measles in 2006. See our measles page.
Please subscribe to our announcements email group to be sure of receiving updates (e.g. change of address...). This is not a busy email list - you will receive very few messages via this group.
SHPU - formerly the Surrey Communicable Disease Control Service (SCDCS) - was established in 1997, when the two health authorities in Surrey merged their communicable disease control functions, to create a single service for all of Surrey.
Since 1 April 2003, when a new national Health Protection Agency came into existence, Surrey Health Protection Unit (SHPU) has been an outpost of this agency.
In September 2003 it was confirmed that SHPU would merge with the Sussex Health Protection Unit, to become co-terminous with the Surrey and Sussex Strategic Health Authority. For the time-being this web site will continue to refer only to the Surrey part of the Surrey and Sussex Health Protection Unit.
These are the web sites of the West Surrey and East Surrey health communities.
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For the time being this site will continue to refer only to the area covered from the Leatherhead office of the Health Protection Unit, although the Surrey and Sussex units have now merged.
| How we fit in the Health Protection Agency |
| Lead Areas |
| SHPU Announce email list and web site |
| People. |
| Office addresses and phone numbers. |
| A note about email. |
| Secure communication |
If you want to be sure that an email will reach us quickly, please send it to ccdc@shpu.nhs.uk - emails to that address are forwarded to all of us.
The Surrey office is part of the Surrey and Sussex Health Protection Unit (SSHPU). This is currently based on three sites: in Chichester, Lewes, and here in Leatherhead. The SSHPU director is Dr Angela Iversen, based at Lewes.
SSHPU is part of the HPA Local and Regional Services Division's South East Region. The regional director is Dr Graham Bickler.
We have divided up the work so that for some issues we have a lead person, who leads on the proactive work on that issue. We have also divided up the patch geographically and by organisation. Click here for details. (With all the current changes as the HPA is established, and we work out how best to share the work across the larger Surrey and Sussex area, these arrangements are likely to be subject to review and considerable change for the foreseeable future; but we will endeavour to keep this website up to date with the current arrangements .)
People wishing to receive occasional updates about SHPU, and to be able to download our policy and guidance documents , and other items of interest earlier than can be done via this web site, may wish to subscribe to a Yahoo! group called SCDCS-announce. This is set up as a newsletter group, not a discussion group, so it will not mean receiving many email messages.
Click here to join this list, or enter your email address in the box below. (Details on how to manage Yahoo! group membership are provided at www.phmeg.org.uk/egroup.htm.)
(With all the current changes as the HPA is established, and the Surrey and Sussex HPUs merge, these arrangements are likely to be subject to review and considerable change for the foreseeable future; but we will endeavour to keep this website up to date with the current arrangements .)
We have four consultants in communicable disease control (CsCDC), three health protection nurse practitioners, and support staff. We do not employ any TB nurses.
We have divided up the work so that for some issues we have a lead person, who leads on the proactive work on that issue. We have also divided up the patch geographically and by organisation. Click here for details.
Consultants in Communicable Disease Control include:
| Name | Contact details* | Notes |
| Dr Peter M B English | Peter.English@shpu.nhs.uk,
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which should work permanently.
or via world-wide-web, for Dr English in person. |
Personal web page Work PGP key Home PGP key ccdc@shpu.nhs.uk (or  ) will reach all
HPU staff. |
| Dr Corry van den Bosch | Corry.vandenBosch@shpu.nhs.uk | |
| Dr Margot Nicholls | Currently on maternity leave. While on leave her work is being covered by Dr Anna Jones, and Ms Sue Frossell. | |
| Dr Kevin Carroll | Kevin.Carroll@shpu.nhs.uk | (Locum, covering NE part of West Sussex from Leatherhead office - see Lead Areas page for details of areas covered) |
Our establishment for Surrey has been reduced to one I-grade, one H-grade, and 0.6 wte F-grade infection control /health protection nurses; plus an additional 1 wte nurse for the West Sussex part of the patch. Max Courtney joined us on 10 October 2005, and we now have two nurses in post, and the other posts have been caught by the recruitment freeze consequent on the £14.5 million that HPA is required to make as a result of the Arms Length Body Review.
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| Max Courtney | Max.Courtney@shpu.nhs.uk | Covering Surrey and providing support to NE part of West Sussex from Leatherhead site |
| Jaime Morgan | Jaime.Morgan@shpu.nhs.uk | |
| Naomi Buck | Naomi.Buck@shpu.nhs.uk |
According to BTS guidelines there should be up to 2.5 wte TB specialist nurses in Surrey, but the HPU does not employ any TB nurses in Surrey. The draft TB national plan states that TB control is NOT to be done by the Health Protection Agency, but by (or commissioned by) Primacy Care Trusts, so it seems extremely unlikely that the HPU will be able to employ any TB nurses, unless we do so under an extra Memorandum of Understanding, with the PCTs commissioning the service from the HPA.
| Name | Job description | Contact details |
| Mrs Angie Samways | PA |
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| Charlotte Collyer | Secretary | Charlotte.Collyer@shpu.nhs.uk |
| Mrs Anne Cockram | Secretary | Anne.Cockram@shpu.nhs.uk |
| Mr Nigel Bainton | Information officer | Nigel.Bainton@shpu.nhs.uk |
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The Surrey office of the Surrey and Sussex Health Protection Unit is currently based in Leatherhead, in Surrey. Since 10 October 2005 we share accommodation with colleagues at East Elmbridge & Mid Surrey PCT. Our address is:
Surrey & Sussex Health Protection Unit Cedar Court Guildford Rd Leatherhead Surrey KT22 9RX Tel 01372 227331, fax 01372 227373.(This is mainly for professional use.)
Out of hours call 0870 238 5156, and say where you live (or where the incident you are enquiring about is).
At present we have a number of different types of email address.
As the Health Protection Agency gears up, we expect it to set up forwarder email addresses (firstname.surname@hpa.org.uk), and we will post information about that on this site and via our announcements email list in due course.
The fax machines at the numbers given above are in our own offices, not shared with anybody else.
The most secure way to communicate with us will be by using encrypted email. This used to be possible when emailing the East Surrey (West Park) office, using "Pretty Good Privacy", software which is free for non-commercial use, and can be downloaded from the PGP International web site. Encryption has not yet been installed at our new offices in Leatherhead. We hope that this will be done in due course, and if it is, we will let you know via our announcements email list when this has been done, and we will make it possible to download public keys via www.bigfoot.com/~scdcs, although you should always validate them before using them.
For more information visit the Department of Health's information security web site, or PGP International.
At present this web site's URL is http://fam-english.demon.co.uk/SCDCS.htm. It is located on (Dr English's) own web site. We hope to move it to an "official" health sector web site, or to get it a site of its own, eventually. It should always be possible to find it at http://bigfoot.com/~scdcs, wherever it is actually based.