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Mpox

Checked: 23-02-2023 by Rob Adams Next Review: 23-02-2023

Overview

Please see latest updates on Mpox (Monkeypox) on the PHE website:

Mpox - back ground information

Please also see attached NHSE updated guidance on the management of confirmed mpox cases.

Please note that mpox is a notifiable disease and suspected cases should be reported.

Patient information on Mpox can be found on the NHS website

Local guidelines

Please see the link below on the Unity sexual health website regarding patients with suspected Mpox including advice for contacts and who is eligible for vaccination:

Mpox in the UK | Unity Sexual Health



Efforts are made to ensure the accuracy and agreement of these guidelines, including any content uploaded, referred to or linked to from the system. However, BNSSG ICB cannot guarantee this. This guidance does not override the individual responsibility of healthcare professionals to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual patient, in consultation with the patient and/or guardian or carer, in accordance with the mental capacity act, and informed by the summary of product characteristics of any drugs they are considering. Practitioners are required to perform their duties in accordance with the law and their regulators and nothing in this guidance should be interpreted in a way that would be inconsistent with compliance with those duties.

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