Clinical calls to medical microbiology are received from doctors > FY2 grade.
Weekdays, Monday-Friday, advice is available between 11am-4pm.
Calls out-with this time for urgent clinical calls only.
28 june 2024
Our eHealth team advised us yesterday of an international vulnerability relating to polyfill.io . This domain has become compromised and is spreading malware through a widespread supply chain attack, estimated to affect over 110,000 websites including major websites such as the BBC. The Polyfill site offered widely used bits of code for older browsers that allowed the use of modern Javascript features. Such code makes the work for web developers easier and allows compatibility with a broader range of browsers.
Websites that have used the Javascript code from Polyfill have been urged to remove such code immediately. The change occurred after a suspected Chinese firm purchased the domain in early 2024.
Tactuum have identified and are now testing a fix to remove all Polyfill code from the RDS site.. They will be deploying the fix on Monday 1 July along with other planned fixes and amendments. I will notify you of the timing of the deployment as soon as possible.
In the meantime, please ensure that you have up-to-date anti-virus software installed on your machines and personal devices.
Before you phone you should always check:
Clinical calls to medical microbiology are received from doctors > FY2 grade.
Weekdays, Monday-Friday, advice is available between 11am-4pm.
Calls out-with this time for urgent clinical calls only.
Monday-Friday (11am-4pm) (excluding public holidays)
Advice is available via tel: 0131 536 3373 (internal 63373) with option 4 for medical microbiology. These calls will be triaged with the aim to respond usually within 2 hours.
>5pm weekdays (5pm -9am), weekends and public holidays
On-call medical microbiology.
Urgent clinical advice
Monday –Fridays (9am-11am, and 4-5pm)
Advice is available via tel: 0131 536 3373 (internal 63373) with option 4 for medical microbiology, urgent clinical calls only.
There are IV to oral switch recommendations along with recommended durations for most indications with the Antimicrobial App. Further guidance is available here.
These decision are never urgent. Only phone in hours.
Make sure you have all the information you need before phoning.
A phone call to microbiology
TOP TIP - have the patient's notes, drug chart, obs chart, (stool chart), open and in front of you when you phone.
SITUATION
BACKGROUND
ASSESSMENT:
RECOMMENDATION:
Remember
More or different antibiotics alone are often not the answer.
Without draining the pus or removing the infected material antibiotics are likely to fail and antimicrobial resistant organisms will be selected.