Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 - 08:05 PM

Dear mental health Trainee,

It is good to remember mental patients are highly infected with hbv, many of the wards I visit are over full of people from 1 in 10 infected regions also. Tropical africans and Pacific Rim nations are all 1 in 10 to 20 infected. then you have to factor in the 25,000 assaults reported each year on uk wards. trust me you need to get the jabs done.

In the US they know a nurse dies every day from hbv and as you have noticed here we barely know how to use the vaccine, leaving millions at risk and hundreds getting infected. Having caught hepatitis c myself from a needlestick after asking a mentally ill herion addict to not leave her used syringes in tricky places, she then left them everywhere, it is just a risk not worth taking.

Go to Lloyds and get an accelerated 28 day course done do the titre test after.
Cut n paste the link and call the nearest lloyds.
http://www.hepb.org.uk/news/current/need_a_hbv_vaccination_quick_

The accelerated course is on cut paste again
http://www.hepb.org.uk/information/resources/hbv_vaccination_packs_for_industries
scroll down to custodial carers hbv booklet.

Half our police force and nearly all our security care and cleaning staff are under vaccinated. By failing to titer test one hospital had staff 30% unaware if they have a hbv infection or immunity. Basically the test is everything the jabs are kinda dangerous without their titre tests, so do not fall into that category. We often get calls from staff amazed to find they have hbv not immunity after 10 20 even 30 years doing exposure prone roles. I've also met 3 nurses with cancer, I mean 30 years in the front line of risk, especially in the 60's 70's and 80's, or up until now for some overseas nurses, and these ladies were never tested at all, until they were dying.

As with private cleaning, private vaccination seems to bring out a total lack of care from the NHS. Both have suffered huge and fatal consequences from the NHS inability to include private agencies and co operate with them for patient benefit. They are quite capable of watching thousands die in filthy wards or you wander off and get a decimating incurable carcinogen, BECAUSE someone has said it is not their business. The simple use of the Pharmacy chains that are everywhere, even jotting down a local number, even with over a million blood workers at fast growing risk has been quite beyond nearly every GP, for instance.

As a final whisper, patients with hbv on mental wards need more support, i have seen many put on meds that harm their livers and many develop obese fatty liver, a 4 stone weight gain during a 6 month section was recently recorded, a triple whammy of liver harms. I mean get some scales in the ward and the pizza leaflets out. At least make sure a baseline liver function test happens re the anti phychotics etc, especially dementia patients can be harmed and not express it. Also, patients seem bombarded with religion and this has interferred with their understanding of hbv, as has the on ward availability of substances to abuse. Finally the last ward I was on I asked the patient, she had been in and out of wards for 12 years, I asked her one tip of advice from a healthcare worker she remembered, she said none. I asked her if she had ever befriended or trusted a healthcare worker enough to listen to them and she said no.

i should add the woman was recently functional enough to finish a masters and care for priceless antiques, easy to engage with.

paul

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 - 11:37 AM

hi

£269 is just a major crime against the general public, it costs £3 in Mumbai General and most of the planet. Hospitals in Africa got 4.3 billion from the UK and other governments to supply free jabs, incredible eh, yet the same africans are not even advised they are 1 in 10 infected here, or offered safety screening for themselves or vaccinations, even when offered many exposure prone roles.

If you study the GP guidance on this, it fails to cover anyone and garantees no GP can ever understand who is at occupational risk, ours would be the only GP's on earth unable to understand how hbv transmits for the last 30 years. This we call Health n Safety. do print the occupational pack for all asylum workers and ward visiting staff also.

In my heart I know staff are catching and dying from hepatitis far more often than needs be, yet even my nhs file states cirrhosis due to alcohol, I'm teetotal, 25 years hep infected. Basically the thousands dying each year are filed away uncounted and the inner cities and many communities are now endemic and we also simply refuse to count the reality up. Migration is adding 20,000 hbv and hcv infections annually so we will see the next generation facing an endemic landscape, with our GP's and Health Protection Agency quite possibly not noticing, or knowing how to vaccinate.

With all funding from government and pharmaceuticals withdrawn from the Foundation and a national liver strategy planned to lower testing and vaccinating 25%, I do fear a million undiagnosed hbv and hcv mainly from childhood and healthcare is a UK inevitability. Every Worker with Blood needs to understand this.

Best Regards

paul