Department of Health links

Emergency Planning at the Department of Health (DH) provides notes for assistance in the Public Health response, and is targeted at Public Health physicians and Consultants in Communicable Disease Control.

Main Anthrax page

Patient Group Directions (PGDs)

DH have developed PGDs which allow certain medicines to be given as countermeasures to groups of patients in emergency situations

DH Public Health Aides-Memoire:

Covert release of anthrax suspected/ confirmed (v2 12 August 2002, PDF 28K)

Overt release of anthrax confirmed (v2 12 August 2002, PDF 24K)

DH Forms:

Immediate checklist (v2 12 August 2002, PDF 19K)

Exposure and prophylaxis (v2 12 August 2002, PDF 23K)

Epidemiological outline questionnaire (v2 12 August 2002, PDF 6K)

DH Briefing Note:

Briefing note for the public (v2 12 August 2002, PDF 20K)

Last reviewed: 20 June 2011