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Public Health Wales provides health protection services to the people of Wales. These services are integrated with our other public health services and are delivered primarily through:

Topics of Interest

First injecting drug use data report for Wales published: 
The report provides data on activity within all 46 statutory and voluntary sector needle and syringe programmes (NSPs) across Wales recorded on the Harm Reduction Database Wales over the period 01/09/2010 to 31/03/2012.
Latest hepatitis B vaccination uptake data from Welsh prisons: 
Hepatitis B vaccination data reported from HMP Cardiff, HMP Parc, HMP Prescoed, HMP Swansea and HMP Usk for July-December 2012 have been published.
Update on novel coronavirus infection in UK: 
Since the first identification of a novel coronavirus in September 2012, four confirmed cases had been identified in the UK by 19 February 2013. Of these, three are associated with a family cluster.
 

Latest News

Uptake of seasonal influenza immunisation for 2012/13 published: 
The uptake rates for last winter's seasonal influenza vaccine are available both on an all-Wales basis and for each of the seven Health Boards in Wales.
 
Influenza activity in Wales: week 23 2013: 
The weekly clinical consultation rate for influenza in Wales for week 23 2013 is 3.6 consultations per 100,000 population. This is below the threshold for normal seasonal activity but has slightly increased compared to the consultation rate for the previous week (2.3 per 100,000).
 
Laboratory-confirmed infections and notifications reports: 
The Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre has published reports on rates of laboratory-confirmed infections and notifications of communicable diseases in Wales for the month of May 2013.
 

Last updated: 14/06/2013