Talk:Health Protection Agency

message: ===HPA centres and divisions===
===Centre for Infections (CfI), Colindale, North London===
Responsible for infectious disease surveillance and epidemiology, specialist and reference microbiology laboratories and new vaccine modelling.
===Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards (CRCE), Chilton, Oxon===
Covers a range of issues associated with risks resulting from exposure to chemicals and poisons, and to ionising and non-ionising radiation.
===Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response (CEPR), Porton Down, Wiltshire===
Coordinates preparedness and conducts emergency planning exercises. Also partners with industry, academia and government to develop new healthcare products. Manufactures anthrax vaccine for the government.
===National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC)===
Leader in developing standards to ensure the safety and efficacy of biological medicines.
===Local and Regional Services (LaRS)===
Provides specialist health protection intelligence, advice and operational and strategic support to all primary care trusts, strategic health authorities, regional directors of public health and all local authorities in England.
===Regional Microbiology Network (RMN)===
Provides frontline diagnostic and public health microbiology services to the NHS and the agency’s health protection units.
I don't understand any of the material about these centers. The article says that this agency has dissolved, but the text about these centers is written in the present tense. Are these divisions continuing in some form? Or have they also dissolved? ParticipantObserver (talk) 23:56, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional information on the centres and divisions

message: Provides frontline diagnostic and public health microbiology services to the NHS and the agency’s health protection units.
I don't understand any of the material about these centers. The article says that this agency has dissolved, but the text about these centers is written in the present tense. Are these divisions continuing in some form? Or have they also dissolved? ParticipantObserver (talk) 23:56, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Regional Microbiology Network (RMN)

message: ===The Health Protection Agency Annual Conference===
Attended by approximately 1,000 health professionals and scientists to promote scientific excellence and best practice in health protection and emergency planning, the conference brings together experts from a wide variety of disciplines to share knowledge of the latest scientific research and developments.
===Health Protection Report (HPR)===
This electronic periodical, published online every Friday, is targeted at healthcare professionals and scientists/researchers in relevant fields and its primary purpose is to inform public health action and decision-making.  It contains a weekly digest of health protection-related news and surveillance reports, which include infections, chemicals, radiation and emergencies
Thanks
Peepspowell (talk) 12:27, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If you work for HPA, you are certainly running the risk of being biased. Anyone can update information in our articles but you should really read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest before trying to do so. Regards SoWhy 12:33, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Agency outputs

message: This electronic periodical, published online every Friday, is targeted at healthcare professionals and scientists/researchers in relevant fields and its primary purpose is to inform public health action and decision-making.  It contains a weekly digest of health protection-related news and surveillance reports, which include infections, chemicals, radiation and emergencies
Thanks
Peepspowell (talk) 12:27, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If you work for HPA, you are certainly running the risk of being biased. Anyone can update information in our articles but you should really read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest before trying to do so. Regards SoWhy 12:33, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Health Protection Report (HPR)

message: The rumour mill has it that the HPA is in some degree of financial trouble - I must say I don't know the full details. I would be grateful if anyone could update the site accordingly  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.150.166.161 (talk) 13:13, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  HPA in trouble 

message: The HPA has been gone for a decade. I have changed text to past tense. Some divisions of HPA continued to exist in Public Health England, MHRA and UK Health Security Agency. Given that the section about the various divisions is completely unreferenced, I'm not sure we can be confident that these are accurate descriptions of their state when they were in HPA. I wonder if it would be better to reduce the Organisation section significantly, and link to successor organisations where relevant. --Mgp28 (talk) 20:02, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits, July 2023