Winter Preparedness by Helen Kirk
There's a definite chill in the air now. It's dark when I head to work and nearly dark when I get back home. "Winter is coming" as they say in Game of Thrones (a hit TV series for those still …
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Staying well this winter. It's more tricky than I thought...... for my dad that is - by Joanne Bosanquet
Two years ago in early December, my 80 year old dad, who by the way believes he is not yet 80 and flies around the place like a much younger version of himself, fell ill. He has a chronic respiratory …
Infection Control and Communicable Disease Prevention in the Special School Nurseries and Childcare settings by Helen Friend
Following a summer outbreak of viral gastroenteritis in a special school setting in West Yorkshire, which was particularly long running in nature, a request was received from a school cluster of 8 special schools within the West Yorkshire area as …
A day in the life of a Screening and Immunisation Co-ordinator by Eleanor Ennis
Hi, my name is Ellie. I am a Registered General Nurse and I’ve worked as a Screening and Immunisation Co-ordinator in the North West for 3 years now. I am based within the Cheshire team which is part of the …
Managing Winter pressures and Norovirus by Theresa Shryane
Hello, I am one of the Health Protection Nurse Practitioners working in the Greater Manchester Health Protection team in Public Health England North West. Health protection covers communicable disease surveillance/control, emergency preparedness, resilience and response, and environmental public health and …
MenB Vaccine by David Green
Meningcoccal Group B bacteria (MenB) is rare, with between 400 and 1,200 cases each year in England, with infants under one year of age most at risk. Although rare, MenB can cause meningitis, an infection of the membranes that surround …
Working to Prevent Rabies by Amanda Dennis
Rabies is a vaccine preventable disease that occurs in more than 150 countries. WHO state that an average of 60,000 people die annually from rabies and report more than 15 million people receive post exposure prophylaxis every year. RIGS, the …
Why are some healthcare staff reluctant to get a flu jab? by Helen Donovan
The flu vaccine is one of the mainstays of winter preparedness as flu viruses normally start circulating more over the winter months. The vaccine is offered mainly to three groups of people. Firstly those at highest risk such as the elderly, …
TB awareness raising sessions at a faith based boarding school in West Yorkshire by Helen Friend
As the new intake of Year 7’s settled into life at their boarding school in West Yorkshire, members of the West Yorkshire Health Protection Team and the local TB services embarked on planning the yearly TB awareness raising session. The …
Tuberculosis and homelessness: what can we do? by David Parker-Radford
In the late 1980s, tuberculosis (TB) cases were fewer than 6000 in the UK and there was hope that the disease would be eliminated as a public health threat. This had fallen from over 100,000 cases at the start of …
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