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:
Health Protection Programmes in Immunisation and Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Healthcare Associated Infections, Respiratory Infections, Blood Borne Viruses and Sexual Health and Antibiotic Resistance
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
