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Have you considered what you need to do to mitigate the impact of swine flu on your clinic?

How can you minimise the risk of infection? What would you do if a high number of staff became ill? How would you manage your clinic’s workload?

In addition to the general ‘catch it, kill it’ advice, the Department of Health has provided specific guidance to healthcare organisations.

• Download the full guidance document

The Department of Health has also published guidance on making contingency plans.  See:

• DH: Pandemic flu – supporting guidance
• DH: Pandemic flu – guidance for healthcare providers

Clinics are reminded that the HFEA’s 8th Code of Practice requires that they:

• are equipped with backup and emergency clinical facilities that are equivalent to those provided as standard practice in other medical facilities. 
  
  See guidance note 25.11
• have adequate staffing and funding to implement formal emergency procedures, including having on-call arrangements, to maintain safe cryopreservation of embryos and gametes. 
  
  See guidance note 26.4

Page last updated: 09 October 2009

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