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In year periods replace with 'to' (and spell out the years in full) so 2020/21 becomes 2020 to 2021. Ideally, specify what kind of year, financial year, academic year, calendar year, flue or norovirus season and so on.
In data describing umbers out of a larger total, replace forward slash with 'out of' so 27/360 becomes '27 out of 360'.
In tables, for space reasons, you can leave /, so '27/360' (as abbreviations of months are also allowed).
Fractions
Write out and hyphenate fractions: two-thirds, three-quarters.
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Upper case for names of groups, directorates and organisations i.e. when it's a proper noun: Knowledge and Innovation Group.
Lower case when a group has a very generic title like working group or research team i.e. when it's a common noun.
(UKHSA) GUMCAD
GUMCAD STI Surveillance System (this is the registered name of the surveillance system).
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(UKHSA) health protection team
Lower case when a general common noun, upper case when used in a specific title (a proper noun)
except in title of a specific team. Spell out on first appearance with abbreviation (HPT) in brackets, then use HPT or HPTs thereafter.
(UKHSA) health protection unit
Lower case unless it’s the title of an organisationcase when used as a common noun, upper case when naming a specific one i.e. a proper noun: North East and Central London Health Protection Unit.
helpdesk
Not 'help desk'.
homepage
Lower One word, lower case.
Hyphenation
Hyphenate:
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Hyphenate compound adjectives when used before the noun but don't hyphenate afterwards - 'consult up-to-date guidance' but 'this guidance is up to date'.So when used before nouns we hyphenate the following phrases:
UKHSA-specific phrases
laboratory-confirmed results
Hyphenated
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nouns
catch-up
follow-up
I
ie
See eg, etc and ie
implementation period
Always lower case.
(UKHSA) In vitro and in vovo
In vitro (two words, no hyphen).
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(UKHSA) On the same basis, reception is capped down.
Writing about ethnicity
TBC