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Hi,
Anybody ever had an employee ahve TB ? Do I need to just fill in Riddor or do I need to inform any authorities. Staff are also concerned now as they have worked in same office as employee
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As far as I am aware, TB is only reportable under RIDDOR if work related. According to schedule 3, TB must be reported if it was caught because of:
Work with persons, animals, human or animal remains or any other material which might be a source of infection.
However, TB must be notified by a physician and the Public Health England website states:
All forms of TB in England and Wales are statutorily notifiable by the physician making or suspecting the diagnosis under the amended Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 and its accompanying Regulations which came into force in 2010. A notification must be made to the local 'proper officer', usually the Consultant in Communicable Disease Control (CCDC).
LB
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So the doctor does it and not us?
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The patient will automatically be assessed by the hospital/community respiratory and HPA teams.
If there is a diagnosis there will have been an assessment made and if open TB is suspected the patient - remember, the person is a patient so treat them with courtesy and compassion - will be excluded from work until smear negative. The risk of transmission is then negligible, and would have been negative if the patient was not an active exciter with open TB to start with.
If your colleagues have concerns, you can reasonably allay them unless and until you have an HPA visit in which case they will take over.
For what its worth, the system is that the worried well can contract NHS Direct.
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TB is not a readily transmissable bacteria and intimate contacts are necessary. The likelihood of work transmission is thus negligible.
The only real exception is for people with seriously challenged immune systems such as HIV when they have already had TB in the past.
Bob
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lisar wrote:So the doctor does it and not us? The doctor diagnoses it and then reports it. if you want info direct most hospitals have a TB nurse who will guide you through what you need to do, checking contacts etc
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ptaylor14 wrote:lisar wrote:So the doctor does it and not us? The doctor diagnoses it and then reports it. if you want info direct most hospitals have a TB nurse who will guide you through what you need to do, checking contacts etc Tosh (or any one of the very few other words and phrases that will fail to shake the fragility of your moderators, though I am severely tempted to choose something far stronger). Ring the TB team at your local hospital and do expect to be told to go away and stop wasting their time, and be told in no uncertain terms. Far too many here think that the various specialities available in the NHS and elsewhere, but in general in the public sector, are there for your convenience and to provide answers to silly questions. They will not guide you, and will not guide you through what YOU need to do. And above all, your responsibility emphatically does not embrace checking contacts in the workplace or elsewhere. Is this another suggestion from the building sites? Maybe I should start advising how to lay bricks and wire up buildings. Or maybe when I have a bit of DIY to do I will phone any one of the various construction companies. They have time on their hands, they can give me the answers when I call. That's just how it works, isn't it?
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