16 September 2009

PANDEMIC INFLUENZA

Critical care strategy: managing the H1N1 flu pandemic (September 2009)
This strategy sets out the Department of Healths approach to managing critical care during the swine flu pandemic by increasing the number of available critical care beds and preventing people becoming seriously ill as a result of swine flu.
Guidance
Covering letter

Letter from Chief Medical Officer

Pandemic influenza paediatric clinical pathways: information for health care professionals working in primary care and the community (10th September 2009)
This guidance should be used with the adult modules and provides additional paediatric information suitable for clinical staff in locations where acute medical care may be provided to children. This information should be used in combination with local training by paediatric specialist staff as available to you.
Guidance

Pandemic influenza: paediatric clinical pathways: information for health care professionals working in hospitals (7th September 2009)
This guidance provides paediatric information for hospital-based clinical staff who may need to care for children acutely unwell with influenza during a pandemic.
Guidance


Measures in school settings (11th September 2009)
WHO is today issuing advice on measures that can be undertaken in schools to reduce the impact of the H1N1 influenza pandemic. Recommendations draw on recent experiences in several countries as well as studies of the health, economic, and social consequences of school closures. These studies were undertaken by members of a WHO informal network for mathematical modelling of the pandemic.
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