Download Surrey Health Protection Unit policy, procedure, and guidance documents.

We intend, in due course, to make as many as possible of our current policy, procedure, and guidance documents available via the internet. Sometimes it is easier for us to post information at the SCDCS-announce web site before we can post it here. Click here for information on how to gain access to the SCDCS-announce web site.

The following current documents are available:

Click on the link below for more information, and to download the document:

bulletNotifiable diseases (including a downloadable notification form)
bulletMeasles guidance
bullet Outbreak control plan (including policies for notifiable diseases)
bulletCommunity infection control policy.
bulletGuidance on infection control in schools and nurseries.
bulletPHLS E coli O157 trawling questionnaire
bulletE coli O157 farms and zoos questionnaire
bullet Guidance on eligibility to treatment of non-UK citizens (PDF) (You can also download Health Services Circular HSC 1999/018 here).
bulletGuidance for the management of meningitis and meningococcal disease.
bullet Guidance on the management of measles cases during a possible outbreak.
bulletPertussis (whooping cough) guidance.
bulletHPU newsletters.

(Other HPU links here.)

Downloading readers for files.

We are now able to publish documents as Adobe Acrobat "portable document files". The reader for Adobe's Acrobat "portable document files" - those files with the extension .pdf - is free. See below for details of how to download it.

Some of the files here are in Word 97 format. There are free readers available for reading and printing Microsoft Word documents, if you do not have Microsoft Word (or the version needed): see below

Acrobat

In order to read some of these documents you will need a copy of Adobe's Acrobat Reader. You can download the latest version (free) by clicking on the button to the right, or by visiting www.adobe.com. Many computer magazine cover discs also include it.

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Word

If you do not use Microsoft Word, you can download readers for Microsoft Word files from the Microsoft Download centre at www.microsoft.com/downloads/. Our Word files will be in Office 97 format. In order for the files to appear correctly you may need to ensure that you have downloaded the files "ContactInfo.doc" and "Glossary.doc" are in the same folder/directory on your computer, and update all the fields (hold down Ctrl and press A to select the entire document, then press F9 two or three times, selecting "Update entire table" when prompted...).

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Surrey Health Protection Unit
Revised: December 22, 2006.