OMFS and COVID-19

Page last updated: 27 March 2020 16:58

In the current unprecedented times, the fast moving information tsunami is impossible to follow comprehensively and contemporaneously.  Advice to our members is to monitor the official information sources in England and the devolved nations for the latest information.  In that context we hope that the below will be useful.

27 March 2020: message to all members from BAOMS President Robert Bentley 

If you find useful information, please let us know and we can share it on this webpage.

Escalation Plans for OMFS Departments to manage Emergency and Acute Care as situation changes

• Statement for SAS BAOMS re: COVID-19 March 28
• BAOMS BAOS COVID Advice Update 25 March 2020 Final
• BAOMS ENT COVID Advice Update 25 March 2020 Final
• Specialty guide OMFS and coronavirus v1 23 March
• Guidance for Personal Protective Equipment for OMFS Procedures during Covid19 Crisis
• BAOMS OMFS General COVID-19 Guidance from BAOMS Final
• BAOMS OMFS escalation policy table for COVID Final
• BAOMS OMFS Acute Care Trauma and Covid Guidelines Final
• BAOS BAOMS COVID-19 postions paper Final
• BAOMS ENT UK general COVID-19 guidance

Advice on Provision and Management of Tracheotomies from ENT UK

• Advice on Tracheostomies from from ENT UK

Advice on the Management of Head and Neck Cancer

• BAHNO statement on COVID-19 Issued 17 March 2020.
  Written jointly by the specialties involved including BAOMS and assembled by British Association of Head and Neck Oncology (BAHNO).

General Advice from other sources – please check for more current information

• The  British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) would like to share its COVID-19 skin cancer guidance document which had been derived from advice produced by BAOMS
• Government Advice on PPE, Infection Control, Aerosol Generation from NHS
• NHS England advice
• Health Education England
• General Dental Council - letter explaining that their staff will not be in their office and had links to information in the four nations. Nothing specific. (March 6, 2020)
• General Medical Council
• COVID 19 JCST statement 19 March 2020