East of England Region

The Health Protection Agency (HPA) provides specialist health protection advice, operational support and input to the development and implementation of policy to the National Health Service (NHS) and other agencies. These health protection services relate to communicable disease, chemical and radioactive hazards. The Agency trains and develops HPA and NHS staff, and undertakes the audit of health protection services.

The East of England region comprises one Strategic Health Authority (SHA) - East of England Strategic Health Authority - covering 13 Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and 48 local authorities.

There is a Regional Director's office and a Health Emergency Preparedness Adviser based at the Government Office for the East of England, a Regional Epidemiology Unit, based at the Institute of Public Health in Cambridge, and a Regional HPA Laboratory in Cambridge. There are three HPA Local Health Protection Units (HPUs) serving the six counties of the region:

• Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire
• Essex
• Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire

Last reviewed: 10 March 2008

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