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In 1984, the CDSC merged with the PHLS Epidemiological Research Laboratory, expanding its functions to include research on vaccine-preventable diseases.

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The ERL was created to undertake the analysis and interpretation of centrally collected laboratory data.

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The Public Service Laboratory Act of 1960 transferred responsibility for PHLS from the Medical Research Council to a new PHLS board that was accountable to the Minister of Health.

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PHLS was linked with NHS hospital diagnostic laboratory services and provided advice and assistance to local public health officials, including a bacteriology and virology service.

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Between 1985 and 1992 the PHLS board included a deputy chief medical officer from the Department of Health and until 1989 a deputy chief medical officer from the Welsh Office.

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In the late 1970s, the management of the Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research at Porton Down (formerly known as the Microbiological Research Establishment) was transferred to PHLS.

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A weekly summary report of infections identified by the PHLS laboratories was published from about 1940. In the 1950s this grew to include reports from non-PHLS laboratories, which became the Communicable Disease Report from 1967. These reports provided epidemiological oversight of infectious diseases in England and Wales.

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The Central Public Health Laboratory was the headquarters of the Public Health Laboratory Service and housed specialist and reference laboratories which were organised into divisions focusing on critical areas.

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The PHLS provided countrywide support to local authority and health authority medical officers and environment health officers.

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Dr Galbraith published an article in the "Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine" which stated that health protection services in England suffered from inadequate national coordination.

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Dr Galbraith published an article in the "Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine" which identified the absence of a centralised function specifically for communicable disease control until 1977 as a gap in the coordination of health protection services across England and Wales.

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Dr Galbraith published an article in the "Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine" which identified a need for a clinical epidemiologist in each district, which should be linked through regional specialist epidemiologists to a national specialist unit.

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The ERL organised and carried out epidemiological surveys and field trials of vaccines, assisted with the organisation, coordination and investigation of disease in field studies.

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The ERL was closely linked with the National Institute for Biological standards and Control and the Committee on Safety of Medicines, and represented on various DHSS and Medical Research Council committees concerned with immunisation.

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The Communicable Disease Report published the results of the CDSC surveillance scheme set up to monitor opportunistic infections and cases of Kaposi's sarcoma.

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The Microbiology of Food and the Environment and Communicable Disease division of the DHSS was responsible for the monitoring of infectious and communicable diseases, included those transmitted via blood transfusion and other blood products.

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The DHSS published a health circular which set out the main functions of the CDSC.

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Professor Palmer took up a post as regional epidemiologist for Wales. At the time, he was the only CDSC consultant epidemiologist in the regions. He was the first to be appointed through the CDSC training programme.

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CDSC Wales acted as an advisor to the Chief Medical Officer at the Welsh Office on the epidemiology and control of communicable diseases in Wales.

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After reorganisation, Northern Ireland set up four health and social service boards. There was no separate administration for family practitioner services. Instead, the functions typically associated with community health councils were carried out by district committees.

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