Britain's Ebola screening will be reviewed - but the best way to protect the UK from the virus is to send NHS staff to West Africa, the Government's most senior medical adviser has told Sky News.
Chief Medical Officer Professor Dame Sally Davies spoke out after a Scottish nurse was diagnosed with the deadly disease after arriving back from Sierra Leone.
Pauline Cafferkey fell ill hours after she was given the all-clear at Heathrow Airport, despite raising fears about her temperature with officials at the airport.
The public health nurse's experience has prompted questions about the effectiveness of screening measures, with procedures at Heathrow branded "chaotic" by her colleagues.
Asked how the UK's Ebola screening protocols could be improved, Dame Sally told Sky News: "Well clearly the process was not up to what we would like to see.
"It's being reviewed - we review on a rolling basis because it's a new programme.
"But I think when we know significant numbers of healthcare workers are coming into the country we need to have extra staff there and be prepared."
However, she added: "The best way we can protect this country from Ebola is to recognise that these heroes and heroines are going out there, supporting West Africa, to snuff out this epidemic - to get their people well so it doesn't spread here."
Public Health England's Director For Health Protection and Medical Director Paul Cosford confirmed Ms Cafferkey had complained about her temperature but said she was cleared to fly on to Glasgow after repeated tests failed to detect signs of an "unusual" temperature.
Ms Cafferkey was tested seven times altogether - including six times in the space of 30 minutes after raising concerns while waiting for her connecting flight to Scotland.
She took a taxi home from Glasgow Airport but raised the alarm later after developing a fever.
She was initially treated at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital before being flown to a specialist unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north London.
Ms Cafferkey is the second Briton to test positive and the first to do so on UK soil after nurse William Pooley, 29, contracted Ebola while volunteering in Sierra Leone in August before getting the all-clear following treatment at the Royal Free.
Dame Sally said she could be given blood plasma donations from Mr Pooley to help her overcome the virus, as the experimental drug ZMapp, which was used to treat him, is not currently available.
Meanwhile, a healthcare worker in Aberdeen who fell ill following her recent return from West Africa has tested negative for the virus, the Scottish Government has confirmed.
The woman was taken ill on Monday while visiting Torridon in the Scottish Highlands and transferred to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where she underwent tests.
A third patient from Cornwall, who also recently returned from an affected country, tested negative at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Treliske, Truro.
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