CJD Incidents Panel

The CJD Incidents Panel (CJDIP) provides advice and guidance to hospitals, trusts and public health teams on how to manage incidents involving possible transmission of CJD between patients.

The CJDIP is an expert committee set up in 2000 by the Chief Medical Officer and accountable to the Department of Health. It is a sub group of the  Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens Working Group on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies.