1. Mary Quinn, Health Protection Nurse Specialist
Health Protection Guideline A Board Health Protection Nurse Perspective
Mary Quinn, Health Protection Nurse Specialist

2. Declaration of Conflict of Interest
I am the current chair of the Health Protection Guideline Group HPGG( previously HPN)
Been in post for 21/2 yrs and involved with the HPN for 5 yrs
This is my perspective of what I would think as a Health Protection Nurse should I be on a guideline working group with no previous knowledge of guidance development
The HPGG planned to have a similar learning workshop with previous chairs and members of working groups as described by Dr Nickdel with HPS staff who have been co-ordinating working groups

3. Opportunities Be proactive at a national level
Multidisciplinary, multiprofessional working
Learning and CPD
Consider practice from a wider perspective
As practitioners understand the complexities of practice and have ‘real’ life experiences to offer
Use of up to date evidence
What constitutes as evidence
More likely to implement guidance if involved in production

4. Challenges Time frame for guidance production
Medium to long term commitment
Reactive work can take precedence
Maintaining focus
May never have limited experience of guidance production process
May have rusty skills in evidence searching, appraisal and synthesis
Minimal available admin support
Whole guidance can seem a daunting task

5. Needs Meetings planned in advance (face to face/virtual)
Need for expert help
in developing primary questions
Scientific, grey and other evidence from literature searching
Appraising the evidence in relation to answering the key questions
Synthesising this into guidance
Need for a chair to distribute tasks and into sizable chunks
An team to project manage and keep to tasks