Clinical Guidance

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Haematology

Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Vaccination

• Joint Consensus Statement on the Vaccination of Adult and Paediatric Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients [BIA - JoI 2023]

Mycobacteria

Tuberculosis

• *BIS guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis of the central nervous system in adults and children (BIS - JoI 2009)

Neurological

Encephalitis

• Management of suspected viral encephalitis in adults (BIA - JoI 2012) 
• Management of suspected viral encephalitis in children (BIA - JoI 2012)
• Investigation of Meningitis and Encephalitis

Parasites

Malaria

• *UK malaria treatment guidelines 2016 (JoI)
• Eurartesim interim guidance (ACMP) correction

Travel Medicine

• *Fever in returned travellers presenting in the United Kingdom; Recommendations for investigation and initial management (BIA - JoI 2009)
• *UK guidelines for the investigation and management of eosinophilia in returning travellers and migrants (BIA - JoI 2024)
• *Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of enteric fever in England

Workforce Guidance

Consultant and Speciality Doctor Competency Framework

The first version of this paper was developed by members of the Clinical Services Committee of the British Infection Association. Following consultation with the Royal College of Pathologists and United Kingdom Accreditation Service the first version was issued in final form in January 2018.

This version has been revised to include consultant clinical scientist given their parity with medical consultants in infection with regards to medical microbiology and virology competence

Best Practice Standards for the delivery of NHS Infection Services in the United Kingdom

Prepared by the British Infection Association Clinical Services Committee in conjunction with the Royal College of Physicians Infectious Diseases Joint Specialist Committee and the Royal College of Pathologists Specialist Advisory Committee April 2021.

Tools for Optimising Clinical Consultation Activity in Infection Services in the United Kingdom [BIA CLIP Journal website] 

By Natasha V.D.V. Ratnaraja, Angharad P. Davies, Harriet Hughes, and Clinical Services Committee working group on tools.