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AIDS/HIV Infected Health Care Workers: Guidance on the Management of Infected Health Care Workers and Patient Notification
ANNEX C UK ADVISORY PANEL FOR HEALTH CARE WORKERS INFECTED WITH BLOOD-BORNE VIRUSES: BACKGROUND INFORMATION
1. Remit and Tasks of the UKAP
The UK Advisory Panel was set up originally under the aegis of the UK Health Departments' Expert Advisory Group on AIDS in 1991, and in 1993 its remit was extended to cover health care workers infected with all blood-borne viruses.
The tasks of the UKAP are:
to establish and update as necessary, criteria on which local advice on modifying working practices may be based;
to provide supplementary specialist occupational advice to physicians of health care workers infected with blood-borne viruses, occupational physicians and professional bodies;
to advise individual health care workers or their advocates how to obtain guidance on working practices;
to advise directors of public health on patient notification exercises where these are indicated of patients treated by health care workers with other blood-borne viruses as appropriate;
to keep under review the literature on transmission of blood-borne viruses in health care settings and advise the Expert Advisory Group on AIDS and the Advisory Group on Hepatitis on the need for revision of guidelines as necessary.
2. Membership of the UKAP
The Panel is chaired by a lay (non-medical) person.
The following specialities are represented:
Anaesthetics
Dentistry
Epidemiology
General Practice
Hepatology
HIV Disease
Midwifery
Nursing
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Occupational Health
Public Health
Surgery
Virology
Lay members in addition to the Chairman are also appointed.
The Secretariat is provided by the Health Protection Agency: Communicable Diseases Surveillance Centre.
3. Contact with the UKAP
Directors of public health, regional epidemiologists, physicians, occupational health practitioners and others wishing to obtain the UKAP's advice should contact the Medical Secretary by letter, or by telephone if urgent. Any information which may identify the infected health care worker should be withheld. Confidentiality of all information concerning individual referrals will be maintained by the secretariat and members of the UKAP.
Cases are considered by selected members of the UKAP according to the health care worker's area of work. Experts from other specialties not represented on the UKAP are co-opted to advise as necessary.
Address of Secretariat
Health Protection Agency
Communicable Diseases Surveillance Centre
61 Colindale Avenue
London NW9 5EQ
Telephone:
Dr Fortune Ncube 020-8327-6423 (Medical Secretary)
Ms Helen Janecek 020-8327-6074 (Administrative Secretary)
Email:
fortune.ncube@hpa.org.uk
helen.janecek@hpa.org.uk
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