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Prevention and Control of Infection

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Healthcare Acquired Infection (HAI) reports 2013

Healthcare Acquired Infection (HAI) reports 2012

Healthcare Acquired Infection (HAI) reports 2011

Infection Control Manual

Contents page
Roles and Responsibilities
Section 1: Standard infection control precautions (National Infection Control Manual)
Section 1: Appendix 1: How to hand wash - step by step images
Section 1: Appendix 2: How to hand rub - step by step images
Section 1: Appendix 3: Surgical scrubbing: Surgical hand preparation technique using antimicrobial soap - step by step images
Section 1: Appendix 4: Surgical rubbing: Surgical hand technique using alcohol based hand rub (ABHR) - step by step images
Section 1: Appendix 5: Glove use and selection
Section 1: Appendix 6: Putting on and removing PPE
Section 1: Appendix 7: Decontamination of reusable non-invasive patient care equipment
Section 1: Appendix 8: Decontamination Status Certificate
Section 1: Appendix 9: Procuring, trialling or lending any reusable non-invasive patient care equipment
Section 1: Appendix 10: Management of linen at care area level
Section 1: Appendix 11: Management of blood and body fluid spillages
Section 1: Appendix 12: Management of waste at care area level
Section 1: Appendix 13: Management of occupational exposure incidents
Section 2: Tranmission based precautions - Isolation policy
Section 2, Appendix A: Measures to be taken with certain communicable diseases
Section 3, Appendix 2: Spillages of blood and or body fluids decontamination procedures
Section 3, Appendix 3: Cleaning of equipment - staff responsibilities
Section 7: Guidelines for home care
Section 8: Policy and procedure for the management of patients with Clostridium Difficile infection (CDI)
Section 9: Extended spectrum Beta Lactamase (ESBL) producing organisms
Section 11: Guidelines for indwelling urinary catheters
Section 12: Outbreak Control Plan
Section 13: Patient self catering policy
Section 14: Guidelines for the control of meningococcal disease
Section 15: Food safety at ward level - guidelines for food not supplied by catering departments
Section 16: Guidelines for the prevention of infection in patients with an absent or dysfunctional spleen
Section 17: Guidelines for staff who come into contact with Varicella Zoster Virus (chickenpox or shingles)
Section 18: Guidelines on the care and maintenance of intravascular devices
Section 19: Care after death (Last offices)
Section 20: Management of patients suspected as having Viral Haemorrhagic Fever (VHF)
Section 21: Guidance on Human Transmissable Spongiform Encephalitis (TSE) including Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (vCJD)
Section 22: Guidance for the control of tuberculosis in hospitals
Section 23: Guidelines on the management of scabies
Section 25: Guidelines for enteral feeding
Section 26: Management of patients colonised or infected with Meticillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA)
Section 27: Norovirus control guidelines
Section 28: Mumps virus in the healthcare setting
Section 29: Terminal cleaning guidelines
Section 30: Group A Streptococcus in a healthcare setting

Useful links

Germs - wash your hands of them
Link to Scottish Government website - Top tips to prevent infection

Hand Hygiene posters

Poster 1: Some presents are more welcome than others
Poster 2: Are your patients in safe hands?
Poster 3: Make cleaning your hands part of your routine