Update on CATA's ongoing campaign around the current IPC guidelines for healthcare (18 March 2025)

Summary

Dr Barry Jones, Chair of CATA/CAPA and lead for BAPEN, gives an update on CATA's ongoing campaign to achieve meaningful changes to the current IPC guidelines for healthcare and beyond.

Content

CATA has at last received a reply form the 4 Nation CNOs to CATA’s letter to them of October 2024. It contains a number of points which we have responded to in a further letter 4/3/2025. You will see that we have focussed on the legal aspects of not recognising the airborne route of transmission of Covid-19 and other respiratory pathogens.

Related reading on the hub:

• Update on CATA's ongoing campaign around the current IPC guidelines for healthcare (11 February 2025)

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