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‘’Working together for a safer healthcare environment’’
The role of the Infection Prevention and Control Team is to provide specialist advice on effective prevention and control measures for a safer healthcare environment for both staff and contracted services.
To ensure a seamless service, close working relationships are maintained with other services within the NHS Leeds Healthcare economy; the Infection Prevention and Control Team works in partnership with Leeds Community Health Care NHS Trust (LCH), Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT), Leeds & York Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust (LYFT), and other services commissioned by NHS Leeds such as GPs, dental practices and some care homes. The team implements evidence based practice, policies and guidance sharing expertise to reduce healthcare associated infection (HCAI).
‘Effective prevention and control of healthcare associated infection has to be embedded into everyday practice and applied consistently by everyone’ DoH (2008)
It is our priority to ensure that there is a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to HCAI’s including meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile (CDIFF).
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) publishes up to date figures on cases of MRSA and CDIFF in all NHS Trusts; click here to view the latest report.
Resources
Resources for GPs, Care Homes and information leaflets are available and can be downloaded from the Leeds Community Health Care Infection control page.
A number of infection fact sheets are also available from www.hpa.org.uk/ProductsServices/LocalServices/NorthWest/factsheets/
Clean your Hands Campaign
This was National Patient Safety Agency project. The programme aims to help the NHS in England and Wales achieve consistent, evidence based practice in hand hygiene. The objectives are to ensure staff in the NHS perform hand hygiene correctly at the right time in the right place and so contribute to preventing healthcare associated infections.
Useful Contacts
NHS Direct
For 24 hour health advice and information call 0845 46 47 or visit www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk
Patient Advice Liaison Service (PALS)
For general information, help and advice on local health services call 0800 0525270 Free or email: pals@nhsleeds.nhs.uk
Health Protection Agency
If you need any information on health protection or are concerned by a health related problem in your area call 0113 3860300 or visit www.hpa.org.uk
Diagnostic and Screening Procedures - Safe Sampling handling and transportation of specimens.pdf (0.14 MB) Guidelines for the Management of Patients with MRSA in the Community Health and Social Setting.pdf (0.05 MB) Policy for the Management of Communicable Disease Outbreak in the Community Healthcare Setting.pdf (0.06 MB)
During April and May this year, we are promoting the Sun Awareness campaign. Please Click here to find out more about this campaign.
The video below is to promote the Sun Awareness campaign.
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