Medication and Vaccination Policy

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Written by Occupational Health Nurse Consultant

The Trust is committed to protecting the health, safety and welfare of its employees. We recognise that workplace immunisation programmes are essential to help reduce both the number of susceptible Health Care Workers (HCW) and the attendant risks for transmission of these diseases to other workers and patients.

Due to contact with patients and infective material from patients, HCWs (Doctors, nurses, other medical personnel, students, laboratory technicians, volunteers and administrative staff) are at risk from exposure to and transmission of vaccine preventable disease.

Maintaining the immunity/protection forms an important part of preventing infection within an infection control programme for HCWs. The purpose of immunisation of HCWs is:

To protect HCW from any occupational risk of contracting communicable disease that is preventable by vaccination.
To protect patients and colleagues from acquiring vaccine preventable diseases from an infected HCW.
A corollary of the above policy is to identify and protect HCWs who may not have received immunisations recommended for general use or who may need immunisations for overseas travel in relation to work.

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Last Updated ( Friday, 16 December 2011 10:09 )

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