Registry for CJD and TSE occupational exposures

Registry for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) occupational exposures

The Health Protection Agency and the National CJD Research and Surveillance Unit have set up a new registry to find out more about the risk from exposures to CJD and other TSEs to healthcare and laboratory workers.

The new registry will provide long term follow up of healthcare and laboratory workers who have reported occupational exposures to CJD and other TSEs.

There is currently little good evidence on the risk of occupational transmission of CJD and other TSEs, and this registry will strengthen the evidence base for national guidelines for healthcare and laboratory workers.

Further information about this occupational registry for CJD/TSE exposures, and leaflets and reporting forms can be downloaded in pdf format below.

The protocol for registering occupational exposure to CJD and other TSEs (PDF, 54 KB)

Summary flowchart for reporting a possible exposure (PDF, 23 KB)

Information leaflet for participants (PDF, 44 KB)

Consent form (PDF, 54 KB)

Exposure history form for healthcare workers (PDF, 38 KB)

Exposure history form for laboratory workers (PDF, 27 KB)