The health protection chapter describes the incidents dealt with by the Health Protection team, the implementation of the Lanarkshire Joint Health Protection Plan, and the value of improving flu vaccination rates of staff is underlined.
The extensive work of the Blood-borne Viruses Networks to diagnose and treat patients with HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C is explained.
In screening, the pregnancy, newborn and pre-school screening programmes continue to have good uptake rates, while the prevention of blindness due to diabetic retinopathy by the Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Programme is described.
Links
Health Protection Update
- Scottish Executive Health Department, NHS Boards’ Health Protection Remit [ PDF ]
- Lanarkshire Joint Health Protection Plan 2010–2012 [ link ]
Screening Programmes – Pregnancy, Newborn and Pre-School
- Information Services Division, NHS National Services Scotland. Scottish Perinatal and Infant Mortality Report [ link ]
Implementation of the Lanarkshire Joint Health Protection Plan 2010-12
- Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 [ link ]
- Influenza A (H1N1) Lanarkshire Problem Assessment Group: Debrief Report (September 2010). Presented to the 29 September 2010 meeting of NHS Lanarkshire Board [ link ]
- Influenza vaccination uptake in NHS Lanarkshire staff to inform approaches for 2011/12. Presented to the 23 March 2011 meeting of NHS Lanarkshire Board [ link ]
- The work of the Lanarkshire Blood-borne Viruses Networks. Presented to the 26 January 2011 meeting of NHS Lanarkshire Board [ link ]
- Healthcare Improvement Scotland. Review of sexual health services – NHS Lanarkshire. Edinburgh [ link ]
The Lanarkshire Blood-borne Viruses Networks
- Blood-borne Viruses Managed Care Network Annual Report 2009–2010. NHS Lanarkshire, 2011 [ link ]
- Scottish Government. Hepatitis C Action Plan for Scotland Phase II: May 2008–March 2011 [ link ]
- Scottish Government. HIV Action Plan in Scotland: December 2009 to March 2014 [ link ]
- Healthcare Improvement Scotland. Standards for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Services [ link ]
- Scottish Government. Guidelines for services providing injecting equipment: Best practice recommendations for commissioners and injecting equipment provision (IEP) services in Scotland [ link ]
- Lanarkshire Sexual Health Website [ link ]
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