Exposure Prone Procedures (EPPs) and Bloodborne Viruses (BBVs) - Management of Healthcare Workers (HCW) with a BBV

Introduction

This policy was originally created to combined three separate policies; HEPATITIS B INFECTED HEALTH CARE WORKERS, HEPATITIS C INFECTED HEALTH CARE WORKERS and MANAGEMENT OF AIDS/HIV IN INFECTED HEALTH CARE WORKERS. It applies to all health care workers employed by Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, (‘the Trust’) including doctors, nurses, midwives, visiting health care workers, students and other professionals or health care workers (HCWs) who have direct clinical care of patients.

All independent contractors, locums, agency workers, students and other visiting HCWs providing direct clinical care of patients are required to comply with this policy, in particular of their professional responsibility to seek advice about the need to be tested and seek appropriate professional advice if they have, or believe they have been exposed to a Bloodborne Virus (BBV). They should contact the Trust’s Occupational Health (OH) Department in the first instance for advice, regardless of their employment status.

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