Public Health Medicine On Call Resources

Consultants in Public Health Medicine provide an on-call service at all times for public health emergencies and risks. 

The Public Health Medicine Environment and Health Group has developed guidance with links to other resources to assist this service: “Guidelines for Public Health Response to Chemical and Other Environmental Incidents” otherwise known as the “On-call pack”.

Developing guidance is an ongoing iterative process and we aim to keep this guidance updated as new information becomes available. The following are links to the most updated guidance.

On-call Resources

Section A

• Public Health Risk Assessment and Initial Response – updated June 2019
• Public Health Medicine Incident and Risk Assessment Record (downloads as a MS Word document for ease of completion) - developed June 2019

Section B

• Severe weather
  • Public Health Flooding Resource – updated July 2019
  • Storms – to be developed
  • Heatwaves
  • Cold snaps – to be developed
• Air Quality Incident Public Health Resource – updated June 2019
• Acute Water Contamination
  • Acute Water Contamination: Kerosene Hydrocarbon in water PHRA – developed December 2019
• Asbestos:
  • Guidance (updated August 2018)
  • Public health advice leaflet
• Public health response to the release of a substance of concern – developed December 2019
• Land Contamination - updated July 2019
• Odour – updated March 2017
• Radiation – updated June 2010

 Section C

• Departments of Public Health – Chemical Incident Triage – updated July 2019
• Framework pre-nominated lead agency – updated June 2010
• COMAH Seveso Legislation – updated March 2017
• Glossary – updated March 2017

 Additional resources

• Cluster Investigation Guidance – updated July 2019
• Public Health Doctor On-Call Login