Black Country Measles/MMR webinar follow up

January 24, 2024

Tuesday’s Black Country Measles webinar, hosted by Sally Roberts (Chief Nursing Officer for Black Country ICB) was recorded. You can watch it back by clicking here

Paul Fisher, Consultant in Health Protection at the UK Health Security Agency, gave a situation overview available here. Paul recommends that staff interested in diving deeper read UKHSA’s recently published Risk assessment for measles resurgence in the UK.

Presentation slides given by Dr Tania Hussain, Black Country ICB, which covered the medical diagnosis and treatment of measles are available here.

Donald Dobie presented slides on testing and disease management available here.

Infection prevention and control slides were presented by Shirina Stokes, Black Country Integrated Care Board available here.

Also attached is a summary of the questions asked  during the session and the response from the ICB’s Immunisations and Health Protection Team.  If you do have further questions which were not covered during the session, please email comms.blackcountry@nhs.net