Guidance

Acute respiratory disease: managing outbreaks in care homes

• From: Public Health England
• Part of: Seasonal influenza: guidance, data and analysis and Pandemic flu: public health response
• Published: 26 October 2012
• Last updated: 29 November 2016, see all updates

Managing seasonal influenza, identifying pathogens and transmission routes for acute respiratory disease in care homes.

Documents

PHE guidelines on the management of outbreaks of influenza-like illness (ILI) in care homes

Ref: PHE publications gateway number: 2016471 PDF, 428KB, 26 pages

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Details

This guidance covers the following topics:

• case definitions
• managing cases
• infection control
• recording and reporting

It includes a leaflet for care homes.

Document information

Published: 26 October 2012

Updated: 29 November 2016

+ full page history

1. 29 November 2016 New care home document uploaded.
2. 2 February 2015 Added supplementary guidance for health protection teams involved in prevention and control of influenza and other respiratory viral infections among care home residents.
3. 26 October 2012 First published.

From: Public Health England

Part of: Seasonal influenza: guidance, data and analysis Pandemic flu: public health response