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<p>The National Health Service has plans in place to deal with patients with infectious
diseases as part of its core business. This includes plans to manage patients in line
with infection control procedures, and where necessary in highly specialist infectious
diseases facilities.A patient with Ebola virus infection would be cared for in the
national High Level Isolation Unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London. In the unlikely
event of an outbreak involving more than two people, specialist staff at this unit
are trained and prepared to look after patients safely in an isolation ward, which
would be dedicated for this purpose.</p><p> </p><p>In the UK, the procedures outlined
in the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens guidelines, “The Management of Hazard
Group 4 viral haemorrhagic fevers and similar human infectious diseases of high consequence”,
are followed for any suspected case.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England has assessed
the risk of importation of Ebola in the UK as very low. It is extremely unlikely that
an outbreak of Ebola would occur in the UK even if there was to be an imported case,
as there are factors operating in West Africa which would not be seen in the UK.</p><p>
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