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DH - Swine flu clinical package - 16 June 09 - Link
Pandemic influenza: supplementary information for third sector organisations - 12 May 09 - Link
Swine Flu - Department of Health media statements - Updated 6 May 2009
Extract from - http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/index.htm
For the latest statements from the Department's Media Centre and for swine flu updates - linked below...
Swine Flu Information leaflet - deliveries begin this week
Households across the UK will start to receive the Swine Flu Information leaflet from Tuesday 5 May. The leaflet includes information about what swine flu is and how it could spread, what UK governments have done to prepare for a wider outbreak of flu, how you can protect yourself against flu and what to do if you have flu symptoms. To read and print the leaflet, which is now available in different language versions and alternative formats, please click on the link below.
Swine Flu Information line
A Swine Flu Information line has been set up to provide information on the swine flu virus. The telephone number is: 0800 1 513 513
- Media statements and swine flu updates
- Swine flu RSS feed
- Download Swine Flu Information leaflets
- If you are a member of the public seeking health information and advice on swine flu, please go to NHS Choices (opens new window)
- If you are a member of the public seeking cross-government information on swine flu, please go to Directgov (opens new window)
- For information on how to prepare your business for swine flu, please go to Business Link (opens new window)
- Health Protection Agency (opens new window)
Pandemic flu: managing demand and capacity in health care organisations (surge) - 1 May 09 Extract
This guidance on managing demand and capacity in health care organisations (surge) is available today (1 May 2009) to NHS organisations as planned. We are aware of the interest the organisations have shown in the guidance and encourage them to use the document in their on-going planning work.
The aim of the guidance is to support NHS and social care organisations to build on their existing preparedness plans and enable clinicians to work within an ethical framework during a pandemic, when there may be a significant increase in demand for care.This document is intended to provide staff with guidance on the following:
- operational issues around the increase in demand for services
- supporting clinicians with the decision making processes on triaging patients
To help in the face-to-face application of this guidance by those responding to patients with influenza symptoms, a package of clinical pathways and decision parameters will be available in the next few days. These will include:
- swine flu community assessment tools for adults and children under 16
- swine flu hospital assessment tools with Inpatient pathways for adults and children under 16 years
- a GP authorisation voucher for the supply of oseltamavir liquid medication for under 1’s
- general supporting information
The PDF document below is not fully accessible and is provided for printing.
Pandemic flu guidance for businesses: risk assessment in the occupational setting - 27 March
This booklet explains how businesses can help reduce the spread of flu in the event of a pandemic.
It provides information to allow businesses to assess the types of measures that may be used in their particular occupational setting.
This is a consolidation of various items from around the web
- DH - Planning for pandemic influenza in social care - 23 Jan 09
- GPC - Preparing for pandemic influenza - Guidance for GP practices - 7 Jan
- DH - Pandemic influenza: guidance for primary care trusts and primary care professionals on the provision of healthcare in a community setting in England - 18 Dec 08
DH - Pandemic flu: UK international preparedness strategy - 22 Oct '08
This strategy is the first of its kind; demonstrating a cross-government approach to improving international preparedness over the coming three to five years. It presents the UK Government's aims, objectives and actions for playing its part to improve global pandemic preparedness.
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Guidance…
Pandemic influenza - guidance on preparing mental health services in England, 2 July 2008
This document is designed to assist mental health trusts and other specialist mental health service providers in developing their plans for responding to an influenza epidemic. This document details a national approach, setting out the key planning assumptions and principles, roles and responsibilities that should inform the development of local plans.
Pandemic influenza: guidance on the management of death certification and cremation certification - Published: 19 May 2008
This document proposes changes to the procedures for death and cremation certification that could be used in a severe influenza pandemic in order to enable doctors to spend as much time as possible on the care of the living and to ensure that processes for death and cremation certification can be managed as effectively as possible during a pandemic.
Pandemic flu planning. Agreement on GP remuneration: guidance note for Primary Care Trusts - Published: 8 May 2008
Ministers have endorsed an agreement reached between NHS Employers and the BMA's General Practitioners Committee (GPC) on the maintenance of GMS practice income where GP practices are involved in responding to a pandemic influenza.
Pandemic flu: managing demand and capacity in health care organisations (surge) - 1 May 09
Extract
This guidance on managing demand and capacity in health care organisations (surge) is available today (1 May 2009) to NHS organisations as planned. We are aware of the interest the organisations have shown in the guidance and encourage them to use the document in their on-going planning work.
The aim of the guidance is to support NHS and social care organisations to build on their existing preparedness plans and enable clinicians to work within an ethical framework during a pandemic, when there may be a significant increase in demand for care.This document is intended to provide staff with guidance on the following:
operational issues around the increase in demand for services
supporting clinicians with the decision making processes on triaging patients
To help in the face-to-face application of this guidance by those responding to patients with influenza symptoms, a package of clinical pathways and decision parameters will be available in the next few days. These will include:
swine flu community assessment tools for adults and children under 16
swine flu hospital assessment tools with Inpatient pathways for adults and children under 16 years
a GP authorisation voucher for the supply of oseltamavir liquid medication for under 1’s
general supporting information
The PDF document below is not fully accessible and is provided for printing.
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