The disease, which is endemic to certain western and central African countries, has been reported in a number of countries in Europe, Australasia and North America in the past month

The survey, conducted on behalf of Nuffield Health, also found that a third of employees were not offered any physical or mental wellbeing support by their employer

The report reveals that good IPC programmes can reduce health care infections by 70 per cent, but warns that the coronavirus pandemic has exposed many challenges across all regions