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- Care Trusts
- Mental Health Trusts
- Other contacts
- Specialists Trusts
- Independent Healthcare Providers (registered with CAS)
- Clinical Commissioning Groups
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- Learning Disabilities Trusts
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- CMO Urgent Messages - Non-NHS Recipients on Public Health Link
- Mental Health & Learning Disabilities Trusts
- Territorial CMOs in Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales
- Regional Directors of Public Health
- Consultants in Communicable Diseases
- CMO Urgent Messages - Recipients on Public Health Link
- Director of Public Health
- Acute Trusts
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- NHS Trusts (England) - Chief Executive
- GP - Locum
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- GP Practices
- Out of hours contacts
- Community Pharmacy
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- GP Practices 1
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Important information for immediate action
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Immediate actions in response to cases of Monkeypox Virus in the UK with no known travel history
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This safety message contains immediate actions for the NHS following seven confirmed cases of monkeypox virus. The actions are:- Providers
to ensure that they have appropriate
PPE for the assessment and treatment of patients
presenting with possible monkeypox virus.
- Services
should consider a differential diagnosis of monkeypox virus in any patient who
meets the possible case definition in the attachment.
- Inform
local IPC teams and infectious disease/microbiology/virology consultants if a
diagnosis of monkeypox virus is being considered so that appropriate testing
and infection control measures can be implemented.
The attachment contains further information and advice.
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NHS England and NHS Improvement Regional Teams: please share this safety message with Community Pharmacy, Dental and Optical contractors.
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