FAQs
- What is the Health Protection Report?
- About the Health Protection Agency?
- Can I receive Health Protection Report by email?
- How do I reference the electronic Health Protection Report?
- What is the best way to make a link to the Health Protection Report?
- How do I print the Health Protection Report?
What is the Health Protection Report?
The Health Protection Report (HPR) is the national public health bulletin for England and Wales, and is published weekly on Friday. It superseded CDR Weekly at the beginning of 2007. It is part of the Health Protection Agency's Information Knowledge Management (IKM) department. Subscription to HPR is free, and simply requires a simple email request to the editorial team.
HPR is comprised of two strands: a weekly digest of health protection related related news (updated weekly), and surveillance reports, which include infections (routine microbiological and detailed epidemiological data/infection reports), chemicals, radiation, and emergencies
The Health Protection Report has its own exclusive section on the HPA website, and shares the same domain. The publication retains its own brand identity from the main HPA brand, which helps differentiate it as a separate project from the activities on the main HPA site.
About the Health Protection Agency
The Health Protection Agency's role is to provide an integrated approach to protecting UK public health through the provision of support and advice to the NHS, local authorities, emergency services, other Arms Length Bodies, the Department of Health and the Devolved Administrations. The Agency was initially established as a special health authority (SpHA) in 2003. On 1 April 2005, the Agency was established as a non-departmental public body, replacing the HPA SpHA and the National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) and with radiation protection as part of health protection incorporated in its remit.
More information about the HPA is available on the main HPA site.
Can I receive the Health Protection Report by email?
If you wish to receive an email alert or have the PDF file emailed to you each Friday when the Health Protection Report is published, please send your email address to hpr@hpa.org.uk.
How do I reference the Health Protection Report?
The general style for a reference to Health Protection Report should be as follows (please use the same formatting as shown below) :
Written generically:
HPA.<title>. Health Protection Report[serial online] <year> [cited <date>]; < Volume number (HPR Issue number)>:<HPR website section >. Available at <<hyperlink>>.
Anything enclosed in <> brackets must be defined by the author, but all other text and formatting characters are mandatory.The Health Protection Agency (HPA) are the de facto authors of Health Protection Report, despite occasional joint collaborations and submissions from other health related organisations.
When referencing Health Protection Report we strongly advise that you include the PDF hyperlink to the particular issue number, since HTML content pages will always be overwritten or refreshed.
What is the best way to make a link to the Health Protection Report?
The Health Protection Report news page is refreshed every week with that week's news content, and the Surveillance Reports category sections are updated on a rolling monthly basis. If you want to link to a specific article you should ALWAYS link the relevant PDF file of the relevant HPR Issue.
How do I print a specific issue of the Health Protection Report?
A PDF file of each Health Protection Report issue is produced to enable readers to print relevant articles. Most articles have a navigation bar above the article, clicking on the PDF link will open the entire PDF file for that issue. Alternatively clicking on the icon on the left hand side of the home page. The whole issue or just relevant pages can be printed from the PDF file, by selecting all or specific pages in the print options.
