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Hi Nic If they are caring for patients in their homes then it is direct patient care. The providers have to meet standards if they are providing the care for the NHS and the requirements are for more frequent testing than in the NHS. We have had elderly patient's with VzV - a risk to the patient and the carer. You should also consider what the management will be if they get an NSI in the patient's home (diabetic needle etc). Jean On 16 June 2015 at 10:42, Pauline Cranney <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Nic > We do offer screening for similar clients and we ask them to complete a > paper based screening with all their imms and vac history, the clients may > be elderly or immunosuppressed, it's good to know if these staff pose a > risk to clients and the business good will ,you could advise re certain > risks . > Regards > Pauline > > Sent from my iPad > > > On 16 Jun 2015, at 10:27, Nic Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > Hello everyone! I have a prospective client who provides - not to put > too fancy a gloss on it - home help and non-clinical support in people's > homes. After studying the Green Book and trawling the Internet to no > avail, I want to confirm: are there no imms and vaccs requirements for such > workers as there is within the NHS or care homes? It is obviously > recommended that the owner risk assess them but I cannot really see any > need to take an imms and vaccs history as I would for employees involved in > direct clinical care of patients. The client has requested pre-placement > health checks so any advice would be much appreciated. > > > > -- > > Nic Lee > > > > 07759 891 317 > > ******************************** > > Please remove this footer before replying. > > > > OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES: > > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html > > > > CONFERENCES AND STUDY DAYS: > > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH > > ******************************** > Please remove this footer before replying. > > OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html > > CONFERENCES AND STUDY DAYS: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH > ******************************** Please remove this footer before replying. OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html CONFERENCES AND STUDY DAYS: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH