Meet the Calderdale TB Team

We are the TB Team, based at Brighouse Health Centre.

Our team consist of a Respiratory Consultant (Dr Scriven) a TB Specialist Practitioner (Mary Hardcastle) and a TB Specialist Nurse (Dale Richardson)

Each year, on 24 March, the world marks World TB Day. TB remains the world’s leading infectious killer, being responsible for the deaths of nearly 1.7 million people each year and representing the ninth leading cause of death globally. The day is an occasion to mobilize political and social commitment for further progress towards eliminating TB as a public health burden and draw the Public's attention to TB.

TB Is a Bacterial disease, spread by the host coughing, sneezing, spitting the disease, in the direction of the recipient; the infected droplets may then be inhaled into the recipient's lung alveoli.

However, a healthy Immune system will then try and fight the infection; depending on the bacterial load that Recipient is exposed to, and other factors such as Genetic predisposition, environment, current medication etc.., will determine whether the Recipient will successfully fight TB or not.

Our Service includes:

• Advice and information on all aspects of TB.
• Awareness-raising sessions to Statutory and Voluntary sector, and Health-professional groups.
• Supporting our Active TB caseload in the community.
• Screening of contacts of those with Active TB [in our weekly Nurse-led clinic at CRH].
• Screening of New Arrivals from all high-incidence countries world-wide [in our New Arrivals clinic at Broad Street Plaza].
• We liaise closely with the Clinician in our Team, Dr Nick Scriven [also head of MAU], who runs the weekly Consultant-led clinic for our Active TB Caseload.

For more information please call our team on:

Subspecialist Practitioner - Mary Hard castle 07824 343 770

TB Specialist Nurse - Dale Richardson 07795 825 070

Brighouse Health centre: 01484 712515 (ext. 8939)