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Upon receipt of a result (positive or negative) HPTs should review their public health actions, for example contact tracing and post-exposure prophylaxis. When negative results are...

Contacts from the infectious period should be identified and followed up as per the contact tracing guidance for mpox. ...

The designated diagnostic laboratories for mpox testing are the: Edinburgh Specialist Virology Centre (SVC) West of Scotland Specialist Virology Centre (WoSSVC) Glasgow ...

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Where the exposed setting is assessed as having a higher risk of transmission due to: prolonged skin-to-skin contact potential contamination with body fluids closed residential...

Where it is identified that a community setting has been visited in the infectious period by a confirmed case, settings with lower risk of transmission (for example restaurants,...

A&E activity: week ending 11 May 2025...

Following a detailed review by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), the UK’s independent expert group on vaccines, Public Health Scotland (PHS) is working with the Scottish Government and colleagues across NHS Boards to make some changes to Scotland’s childhood vaccination programme.

The MMR vaccine letters are aimed at parents and carers with children in nursery to raise awareness of the free MMR vaccine provided by NHSScotland. On request, these letters can be translated into various languages including Arabic, Polish, Simplified Chinese and Urdu.

The MMR vaccine letters are aimed at parents and carers with children in primary and secondary school to raise awareness of the free MMR vaccine provided by NHSScotland. These letters can be translated into languages including Arabic, Polish, Simplified Chinese and Urdu.