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Posted By Zoe Barnett
Our vaccinations policy states that after due risk assessment, anyone who is identified as being at risk of Hep B is able to go and get the vaccinations with the cost being met by the school/department etc.
One of the special schools has raised the point that they have many more staff having the jab than mainstream schools and that therefore they have a financial disadvantage,in this case to the tune of five or six hundred smackers.
We don't hold a budget to assist schools with this sort of thing & so if any colleagues can suggest ways of evening out the situation I would be very grateful.
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Posted By Neil Pearson
Can't see a way round that unless the schools can win funding to compensate. Or is it possible that the risk assessments could be reviewed to check whether the risk is sufficient to merit the jabs?
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Posted By Jack
Zoe, they're only at a financial disadvantage because they have greater risk exposure. A school with a wide range of d&t machines would have to spend more on training and maintenance than one with few such machines; that's life. One of the joys of 'Fairfunding'!
I would agree with Neil that it might be worth reviewing the assessment; do they all require immunisation? Particularly in view of it's efficacy.
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Posted By Benedict Thierry
Zoe,
I am wondering why the risk assessment has identified this group as at greater risk from Hep B as it transmitted by body fluids, hygiene products, soiled linen, used wound dressings, used disposable nappies, infected blood - especially transfusions, needlestick injuries - accidental, physical attack (broken skin) and if Hep B - why not also Hep C as has a similar means of transmission.
Hep A I could understand ,as the usual route is oral - faecal, so that poor personal hygiene and / or close personal contact is an effective means of transmission and it is known to spread quickly in schools for young children not yet toilet trained whereas Hep B&C is more usually transmitted blood to blood contact.
I'm interested to know.
Benedict
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