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Health Protection Service

What is the Health Protection Service?

Wirral’s Health Protection Service, within Public Health, is at the forefront of prevention, control and management of communicable diseases and other health hazards – providing advice, support and guidance to communities and settings and promoting protective behaviours.

What are the aims of the service?

The service aims to reduce harm to health, protect the economy and address health inequalities in Wirral, focusing on key priorities:

Wirral’s Health Protection Priorities

Ongoing Covid 19 response, including being prepared for new variants
Strengthen infection prevention and control
Reduce the impact of Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
Reduce vaccine preventable diseases amongst adults and children
Strengthen preparedness, resilience and response to outbreaks, major incidents and emergencies
Reduce health harms from climate and environmental hazards
Reduce the harmful impact of Tuberculosis and blood-borne viruses, including Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV

How is this done?

The Health Protection Service promotes the health and wellbeing of Wirral residents by delivering training, community engagement and awareness-raising events linked to the key priorities and via signposting or referral to a network of partner organisations.

The service provides advice to settings on managing cases and outbreaks of infectious diseases and works collaboratively with specialist services and partners including the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) services, Environmental Health, NHS partners, Adult Social Care, Children’s Services and Health and Safety.