Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs) reporting tool

The CareOBRA Tool allows Adult Social Care (ASC) settings only to report new outbreaks of Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI’s) including COVID-19, Influenza (flu), unidentified ARI (e.g., chest infections) and single cases of Influenza.

 

This tool should be used only when reporting a new outbreak of acute respiratory illness. Any updates to an ongoing outbreak should be emailed directly to eastofenglandHPT@ukhsa.gov.uk. Once you have reported an outbreak on the Care OBRA tool, you will receive a survey for feedback.

 

Aim of the Care OBRA Tool

To allow the Health Protection team to:

• Identify and prioritise incidents requiring specialist HPT input
• Focus on interventions which will achieve the greatest public health impact
• Provide local system partners with timely and accurate information
• More efficiently use time and resource

 

To allow adult social care settings to:

• Report their outbreaks or single cases of flu to the HPT without the need to ring or email the HPT beforehand.
• Enable the care setting to collect all the relevant information and enter it into an electronic platform at a time that suits them.
• Enables the care setting to receive a summary of the information entered into the Care OBRA Tool.
• Enables the care setting to receive immediate email advice on how to manage their situation, to automatically identify the higher risk situations and therefore prioritise higher risk outbreaks for further HPT input as appropriate for the specific scenario.

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