Infection Prevention and Control

Infection Prevention and Control 

All staff, including nurses and health care assistants, need to be aware of their national regulatory or statutory requirements in order to support their employing organisation to meet and improve the expected standards which provide assurance to patients and the public that safe and quality health care systems are in place. (RCN 2018)

Local IPC Advice and information 

Out of hours, if your query isn’t urgent; please leave a message on the answer machine and your call will be returned as soon as possible. Otherwise, advice and support will be given via the Public Health England on-call system.

For non-urgent queries you can also email bdg-tr.infectioncontrol@nhs.net

Infection Prevention and Control Bulletins