HIV infected health care worker incident - Highland 2002
Publication Date: 31 July 2003
On Thursday, 9 May 2002, Highland NHS Board were informed that a health care worker who had worked in the Obstetrics & Gynaecology Department at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, between February 1999 and February 2000, had been diagnosed with HIV infection.
Following a local risk assessment and advice from the UK Advisory Panel on Bloodborne Viruses, it was agreed that a lookback exercise was required.
This report is intended to provide an insight into the decision-making that was required and the steps that were taken to allay general anxiety and provide reassurance to those affected by this incident.
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- Publisher:
- Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health
- Publication type:
- Report
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