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Comment: Middle East respiratory syndrome. Use of Or in procedure guidance.

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But these are exceptions. Shorter units remain as per GDS such as 2g, 3cm, 5kg.

(UKHSA) Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency 

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(UKHSA) Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)

Cap down. See WHO and NHS usage.

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Not 'meta data'.

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Do not use slashes instead of 'or'. For example, 'Do this 3/4 times'.

Or in steps or categories

(UKHSA) Sometimes guidance text lists a set of steps or bullets applying to a situation and then simply has 'or:' and another set of steps or bullets. In this case , do 2 things 1) to avoid ambiguity and make clearer, consider amplifying the introductory sentence to flag this, something like 'There are two options for treatment' . And as to the small 'or' it can be easy to miss this so expand it to something like 'Or alternatively:'2) Put Or on a new line with a capital letter and followed by a colon.

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Organisations

Use the singular verb form when referring to organisations by name. Use ‘they’ when replacing an organisation name with a pronoun.

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