HIV testing now compulsory for new NHS staff

All new NHS recruits were already being screened for tuberculosis and hepatitis, and the move to add HIV to the list came amid growing public anxiety. In December, 125 patients in southwest England were offered HIV tests after a worker was found to have contracted the virus. The Dorset and Somerset Health Authority, which refused to identify the employee, announced that none of the patients who had opted for testing had been infected.