Public Health and Protection
Stories from the realm of public protection.
Link between EH and public health ‘must be restored’, says expert
Professor John Ashton makes case for rebuilding of professions.
Symptom tracker app to expand its reach
Researcher says what started as ‘community science project’ is now a key data source.
Tales from the front line: closing borders on the Isle of Man
The EHP team on the Isle of Man has made quarantining and contact tracing its priority.
Tales from the front line: the EHPs getting people fed amid the pandemic
Crawley EH team handed responsibility for ensuring most vulnerable have supplies.
EHPs 'are being overlooked for contact tracing work'
Calls grow for the profession to be deployed in suppressing chain of transmission.
Councils put new lockdown laws into practice
First prohibition orders are served mainly against pubs refusing to close.
Garden fires fuel anger among neighbours
EH departments report increase in bonfire complaints during COVID-19 lockdown.
A barrister's guide to the new coronavirus regulations
Points to help you to take a common-sense approach.
NI EHPs coordinate aid for vulnerable people
EH team uses existing data – and a lot of phone calls – to get provisions and medicine to those in need.
EH's role in enforcing lockdown still being clarified
EHPs race to work out practicalities of enforcement.
