Infection Control

Employers have a duty of care to their healthcare workers and need to provide suitable and sufficient instruction, information and training. This is to ensure that the workforce are competent…

Information, instruction and training for healthcare workers has evolved. This blog explores those changes and why those changes are important in the world today. Duty of Care Employers have a…

An infection control policy is required within every workplace environment. An infection control policy in an office setting will be different to one in a dentist or GP surgery, or…

In this blog the importance of monitoring and surveillance for infection control purposes will be explored. Global Sharing of information Monitoring through surveillance programmes exist worldwide and representatives from different…

In this article I will review hand hygiene methods and the importance of raising awareness of reducing and preventing the transmission of HCAIs in the workplace. The burden of Healthcare…

Cleaning, Disinfection and Sterilisation are three terms used a lot when discussing infection control. In this blog I will explore what they mean and the differences in the terminology. Cleaning…

This is the first of a series of articles over the coming weeks reviewing the importance of hand hygiene in the reduction of the transmission of pathogenic microorganism. Some of…

The term infection control is used throughout the healthcare sector and is an integral part of the industry. It relates to all aspects of health, welfare and the protection of…