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Infection Prevention & Control for Independent Contractors
Infection prevention and control is everyone’s business!
These pages have been set up by the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Team at NHS Sheffield to enable healthcare professionals, from all independent contractor services, quick and easy access to information, guidance and useful links and resources, on all aspects of IPC.
For further information contact: Nikki Littlewood, Infection Prevention & Control Practitioner
email: nikkilittlewood@nhs.net, tel: 0114 305 1111
Latest publications
- Clostridium Difficile Policy (306kb pdf)
- Hand Hygiene Policy (326kb pdf)
- Community Associated Clostridium difficile Associated Diarrhoea (CDAD): A Report of 12 months Enhanced Surveillance (113kb pdf)
- Guidance for Seasonal Influenza Outbreaks in Care Homes (368kb pdf)
- Policy for the Management of Outbreaks of Infectious Diarrhoea and Vomiting in Nursing and Residential Homes (345kb pdf)
- Infections - Section 5 - of the Sheffield Formulary
- Community Pharmacies - Room Specification for Local Enhanced Services and Infection Prevention and Control Guidance / Recommendations (357kb pdf)
Added: Dec 2010 - The national specifications for cleanliness in the NHS: Guidance on setting and measuring performance outcomes in primary care medical and dental premises (1.3mb pdf)
Added: Aug 2010 - End of influenza pandemic statement (30kb pdf)
Added: Aug 2010
GPs
Publications for GPs
Dentists
Publications for Dentists
Optometrists
Publications for Optometrists
Pharmacists
Publications for Pharmacists
Useful links
- Care Quality Commission
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Clean Safe Care
- “Cleanyourhands” hand hygiene campaign
- Clinical policies
- Department of Health
- General Dental Council
- Healthcare A2Z
- Health and social care buildings - planning and design guidance
- Health Protection Agency
- Infection Prevention Society
- National Patient Safety Agency
- National Resource for Infection Control
- Quality in Optometry
- DH HCAI reducing healthcare associated infections
- National Electronic Library for Infection
- NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement -Safer Care
Posters & resource materials
- 6 step hand hygiene technique (62kb pdf)
- Biohazard Spill Kit Instructions poster (73kb pdf)
- Biohazard Spill Pak Instructions poster (86kb pdf)
- Urine and Vomit Spills Kit Instructions poster (81kb pdf)
- Urine and Vomit Spills Pak Instructions poster (81kb pdf)
- MRSA Root Cause Analysis Tool (114kb Excel)
- Clostridium Difficile Root Cause Analysis Tool (963kb Excel)
- National Resource for Infection Control
- Immunisation against infectious disease “The green book”
- Any practice/premises who require additional copies of the Hand hygiene posters previously distributed, please contact: Nikki Littlewood, Infection Prevention & Control Practitioner
email: nikkilittlewood@nhs.net, tel: 0114 305 1111
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