Planning for Pandemic Influenza in Community Care: An Operational and Strategic Framework and Planning for Pandemic Influenza in Community Care: Guidelines for Community Care Staff
These draft documents have been produced for Scotland and follow closely the Department of Health's framework and guidelines for social care. They were issued to key stakeholders on 29 March 2007 for comment by 24 May 2007. The documents are fully consistent with the National Framework for Responding to an Influenza Pandemic
The Planning for Pandemic Influenza in Community Care: an Operational and Strategic Framework aims to encourage and support local authorities and others who provide community care services in planning for a human influenza pandemic. It provides background information on pandemic influenza, how it will spread rapidly across continents, the signs and symptoms of influenza as well as the impact and potential implications an outbreak will have on community care services. There are key challenges in managing community care services and the document sets out key planning considerations, and organisational and individual roles.
The Planning for Pandemic Influenza in Community Care: Guidelines for Community Care Staff is supplementary to the Framework, and is intended as a leaflet that can be issued to staff and volunteers in the event of an influenza pandemic. It explains how community care staff and volunteers can protect themselves, their families and the people they work with.
Informed by the comments we receive, we intend to issue revised versions of these documents in the summer and these will be made available on the Executive website.