Tuberculosis policies and guidelines

​​ NSW Health policy directives and guidelines

• Principles for the Management of Tuberculosis in New South Wales
• Tuberculosis Management of People Knowingly Placing Others at Risk of Infection
• Tuberculosis Contact Investigations​
• NSW Infection​​ Prevention and Control Policy​
  
• NSW Infection Prevention and Control - Practice Handbook
• Occupational Assessment, Screening & Vaccination Against Specific Infectious Diseases​
• Bacille Calmette Guerin (BCG) vaccination
  
• ​Authorised Nurse Immunisers ​​and Authorised Midwife Immunisers Policy Directive​ ​
  
• TST/B​CG competency assessment - process for Authorised Nurse Immunisers
  

Guidelines for the prevention and control of TB in NSW

• The Role of Tuberculosis Coordinators in NSW
• The Role of Tuberculosis Services in NSW
• Minimising the risk of Tuberculosis in patients starting Anti TNF Inhibitors
• Sputum Induction Guidelines
  
• Tuberculo​​​​sis and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection
• Legal aspects of Tuberculosis Control
• Refugee Screening and Follow Up
• Health Undertakings for Migrants & Refugees arriving in NSW​
•  ​Guideline for the Laboratory Diagnosis of Tuberculosis

National guidelines

• National Guidelines for the Public Health Management of Tuberculosis
• Position Statement on Interferon-γ Release Immunoassays in the Detection of Latent Tuberculosis Infection