Nursing Communicable Diseases

The event featured speakers on Find and Treat services, nursing communicable disease in prison, as well as policy information and targeted practical advice on treating Tuberculosis, HIV, Hepatitis C, and improving Flu Immunisation in hard to reach groups.

The QNI also launched its Health Assessment Tool which has been designed to help nurses during assessments of the health of homeless people, and to promote the best standard of care.

National Perpective:

• Nursing communicable diseases affecting the vulnerable – a prison perspective Dr Stephanie E Perrett, Blood Borne Virus Prison Nurse Specialist, Public Health Wales
• Hepatitis C – Policy, issues and the journey to hope Dee Cunniffe, Policy Lead & Project Manager, London Joint Working Group on Substance Use and Hepatitis C

Case Studies:

• TB – Risk, spread, control and treatment and proactive nursing Liz Weeks, Lead TB Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cardiff & Vale University Health Board
• Improving access to testing for homeless people with communicable diseases Dr Al Story, Clinical Lead, Find and Treat Team, University College London

Workshops:

• HIV and Homelessness – reflections from a specialist practice Maxine Radcliffe, Chair, London Network of Nurses and Midwives Homelessness Group
• Seasonal influenza immunisation programme in ‘hard to reach’ groups Julie McFarlane, Lead Nurse, Addaction 

Additional Resources:

Hepatitis C in the UK, PHE https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/337115/HCV_in_the_UK_2014_24_July.pdf

Increased uptake and new therapies are needed to avert rising hepatitis C-related end stage liver disease in England: modelling the predicted impact of treatment under different scenarios. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24824282

S1 High Levels of Latent TB Infection, Blood Borne Viruses and Unmet Need Among Hard to Reach Groups in London: The TB Reach Study http://thorax.bmj.com/content/67/Suppl_2/A4.1.abstract

Prison Health in Scotland (2012) http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S4_JusticeCommittee/Inquiries/Prisoner_Healthcare_-_Annual_Report_to_CEOs_-_November_2012.pdf

International Journal of Prisoner Health http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journal/ijph

RCGP E-module on hepatitis B and C: http://elearning.rcgp.org.uk/course/info.php?id=76

Prison liver health resources: http://www.publichealthwales.org/prison-health

‘Before you ink, think’ community tattoo film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFLkmB5514M

WEDINOS drug analysis and harm reduction advice:                                                      www.wedinos.org

WHO Global Tuberculosis report http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/en/

Tuberculosis in the UK 2014 https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/360335/TB_Annual_report__4_0_300914.pdf

Health Development Agency: Homelessness, Smoking and Health. Health Development Agency; 2004 http://www.nice.org.uk/ nicemedia/documents/homelessness_smoking.pdf

Tuberculosis: identification and management in under-served groups http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/PH37

Department of Health. Healthcare for Single Homeless People, 2010. www.qni.org.uk/docs/healthcare%20for%20single%20homeless%20people%20NHS.pdf

Public Health England. HIV in the United Kingdom: 2014 Report. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/401662/2014_PHE_HIV_annual_report_draft_Final_07-01-2015.pdf

Public health Functions to be exercised by NHS England, Service specification No. 13; Seasonal influenza immunisation programme (2013) Public Health England. Https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/192974/13_Seasonal_flu__service_specification_VARIATION__130422.pdf