Assessing the use of hospital staff influenza-like absence (ILA) for enhancing hospital preparedness and national surveillance

1 Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

2 National Centre for Infection Prevention and Management and National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance Imperial College London, London, UK

3 Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

4 Real-time Syndromic Surveillance Team, Public Health England, Birmingham, UK

5 Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, Public Health England, London, UK

6 Department of Virology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK

7 Department of Occupational Health, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK

8 Department of Human Resources, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK

9 Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK