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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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After reorganisation, the Welsh Office combined the functions of a central government department and a regional health authority.

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The National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1972 established 15 health boards with no regional tier of administration. Local health councils were established to oversee family practitioner services.

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The Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre for Northern Ireland was established.

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The PHLS Working Party on Haemodialysis Units published a report which measured the use of immunoglobulin to prevent the spread of hepatitis.

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The renal unit at London Hospital published a document outlining the precautions taken to prevent hepatitis in the dialysis and transplantation unit.

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The World Health Organization Expert Committee on Hepatitis First Report published in the WHO Technical Report series recommended that "both infectious and serum hepatitis should be made compulsorily notifiable in all countries as soon as circumstances permit."

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The Advisory Group on Hepatitis and the Treatment of Chronic Renal Failure (known as the Rosenheim Committee) published the "Hepatitis and the Treatment of Chronic Renal Failure: Report of the Advisory Group 1970-1972". The Advisory Group was convened in 1970 by the DHSS to make recommendations in relation to hepatitis outbreaks in renal units.

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The PHLS authored the journal article "Decrease in the Incidence of Hepatitis in Dialysis Units associated with Prevention Programme" that was published in the "British Medical Journal".

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