Guidance

Managing tuberculosis (TB) in prisons

Screening for tuberculosis (TB) in prisons, treating TB and reporting cases - guidance for prison healthcare teams.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 1 May 2013

Documents

Management of tuberculosis in prisons: guidance for prison healthcare teams

PDF, 322 KB, 16 pages

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format.

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email publications@phe.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Details

This guidance covers:

• screening new prisoners for TB
• handling people who develop symptoms in prison
• isolation
• reporting cases of TB
• managing people with existing conditions
• treating people with confirmed pulmonary TB
• treating people with extra pulmonary TB or with latent TB infection
• discharging or transferring people with TB

Published 1 May 2013