Health clearance for serious communicable diseases: new health care workers - UK

[Guest guest]

Health clearance for serious communicable diseases: new health care workers

Draft guidance for consultation

Ministers set up an expert group in 2001 to assess the potential health

risks posed to patients from health care workers new to the NHS infected

with serious communicable diseases, in particular HIV, hepatitis B,

hepatitis C and tuberculosis, and to report back on options to minimise

these risks. The measures proposed in this consultation document are based

on the expert group's recommendations, which Ministers have accepted.

All new health care workers will need to have standard health clearance for

serious communicable diseases. Additional health clearance for blood-borne

viruses will be needed for new health care workers who will perform exposure

prone procedures.

The new proposals are not intended to prevent those infected with

blood-borne viruses from working in the NHS, but to restrict them from

working in those clinical areas where their infection may pose a risk to

patients in their care. This is consistent with existing policy, which

imposes restrictions on the working practices of those health care workers

known to be infectious carriers of HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

The purpose of consulting widely on this draft guidance before it is issued

to the NHS for implementation is to identify any major omissions or

difficulties that need to be addressed before issuing the final guidance

document.

The consultation period has now ended. A final version of the guidance will

be issued for implementation in due course, taking account of the comments

received.

http://www.doh.gov.uk/healthclear/index.htm

[Guest guest]

Health clearance for serious communicable diseases: new health care workers

Draft guidance for consultation

Ministers set up an expert group in 2001 to assess the potential health

risks posed to patients from health care workers new to the NHS infected

with serious communicable diseases, in particular HIV, hepatitis B,

hepatitis C and tuberculosis, and to report back on options to minimise

these risks. The measures proposed in this consultation document are based

on the expert group's recommendations, which Ministers have accepted.

All new health care workers will need to have standard health clearance for

serious communicable diseases. Additional health clearance for blood-borne

viruses will be needed for new health care workers who will perform exposure

prone procedures.

The new proposals are not intended to prevent those infected with

blood-borne viruses from working in the NHS, but to restrict them from

working in those clinical areas where their infection may pose a risk to

patients in their care. This is consistent with existing policy, which

imposes restrictions on the working practices of those health care workers

known to be infectious carriers of HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

The purpose of consulting widely on this draft guidance before it is issued

to the NHS for implementation is to identify any major omissions or

difficulties that need to be addressed before issuing the final guidance

document.

The consultation period has now ended. A final version of the guidance will

be issued for implementation in due course, taking account of the comments

received.

http://www.doh.gov.uk/healthclear/index.htm

[Guest guest]

Health clearance for serious communicable diseases: new health care workers

Draft guidance for consultation

Ministers set up an expert group in 2001 to assess the potential health

risks posed to patients from health care workers new to the NHS infected

with serious communicable diseases, in particular HIV, hepatitis B,

hepatitis C and tuberculosis, and to report back on options to minimise

these risks. The measures proposed in this consultation document are based

on the expert group's recommendations, which Ministers have accepted.

All new health care workers will need to have standard health clearance for

serious communicable diseases. Additional health clearance for blood-borne

viruses will be needed for new health care workers who will perform exposure

prone procedures.

The new proposals are not intended to prevent those infected with

blood-borne viruses from working in the NHS, but to restrict them from

working in those clinical areas where their infection may pose a risk to

patients in their care. This is consistent with existing policy, which

imposes restrictions on the working practices of those health care workers

known to be infectious carriers of HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

The purpose of consulting widely on this draft guidance before it is issued

to the NHS for implementation is to identify any major omissions or

difficulties that need to be addressed before issuing the final guidance

document.

The consultation period has now ended. A final version of the guidance will

be issued for implementation in due course, taking account of the comments

received.

http://www.doh.gov.uk/healthclear/index.htm

[Guest guest]

Health clearance for serious communicable diseases: new health care workers

Draft guidance for consultation

Ministers set up an expert group in 2001 to assess the potential health

risks posed to patients from health care workers new to the NHS infected

with serious communicable diseases, in particular HIV, hepatitis B,

hepatitis C and tuberculosis, and to report back on options to minimise

these risks. The measures proposed in this consultation document are based

on the expert group's recommendations, which Ministers have accepted.

All new health care workers will need to have standard health clearance for

serious communicable diseases. Additional health clearance for blood-borne

viruses will be needed for new health care workers who will perform exposure

prone procedures.

The new proposals are not intended to prevent those infected with

blood-borne viruses from working in the NHS, but to restrict them from

working in those clinical areas where their infection may pose a risk to

patients in their care. This is consistent with existing policy, which

imposes restrictions on the working practices of those health care workers

known to be infectious carriers of HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

The purpose of consulting widely on this draft guidance before it is issued

to the NHS for implementation is to identify any major omissions or

difficulties that need to be addressed before issuing the final guidance

document.

The consultation period has now ended. A final version of the guidance will

be issued for implementation in due course, taking account of the comments

received.

http://www.doh.gov.uk/healthclear/index.htm