Consists of papers relating to a Workshop by the Communicable Disease Strategy Group on 13 December 1999.

Includes;

Draft and finalised agenda for the Workshop;

Matrixes used to give focus to health care programmes discussions and the outcomes from these discussions;

Copies of overheads used to demonstrate current challenges and possible solutions;

Briefing document from the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases and the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) entitled 'Honorary Joint Training Fellowships Physicians Taking Higher Specialist Training in Genitourinary Medicine;

Briefing document from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and PHLS (Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre) entitled 'Honorary Joint Training Fellowships for Paediatricians in Higher Specialist Training;

Outcomes of the seminar on commissioning for communicable disease control regarding education and training consequences;

Outline of the key players with responsibilities for communicable disease control in England;

Strategy overview of the remit of the Communicable Disease Strategy Group;

Outline of the aims of the workshops;

Invitation list with attendance status;

Suggested members for the disease specific small groups exercises;

Instructions for the morning workshop session with background papers explaining approaches;

Notes and preliminary paper from a meeting of the Communicable Disease Strategy Sub-Group on Education, Training and Infrastructure held on 23 July 1999, where the application of health care programmes to the field of infections and the application of matrixes eventually used at the workshops to focus discussions were devised;

Drafts and covering correspondence of a report entitled 'Commissioning Services for the Detection and Control of Infections', devised from a meeting of the Communicable Disease Strategy Sub-Group on Education, Training and Infrastructure held on 23 July 1999;

Agenda, proposed timetable and example of the matrix from a planning meeting for the workshops/study day [undated];

And key issues arising from the Workshop.