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Infection Prevention & Control (IPC) Toolkit

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Good infection prevention (including cleanliness) is essential to ensure that people who use health services receive safe and effective care. Effective prevention and control of infection must be part of everyday practice and be applied consistently by everyone.

Good management and organisational processes are crucial to make sure that high standards of infection prevention (including cleanliness) are developed and maintained. The CQC base their expectations of registered providers on the criteria of the code and their findings help them to decide if providers deliver safe, effective and well-led services.

This Infection Prevention & Control (IPC) Audit allows you to keep track of your annual IPC review. It aids with reflecting findings and supporting information as examples of evidence of good practice.

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    Regulation 12: Safe care and treatment

    The intention of this regulation is to prevent people from receiving unsafe care and treatment and prevent avoidable harm or risk of harm. Providers must assess the risks to people’s health and safety during any care or treatment and make sure that staff have the qualifications, competence, skills and experience to keep people safe.

    Providers must make sure that the premises and any equipment used is safe and where applicable, available in sufficient quantities. Providers must prevent and control the spread of infection. Where the responsibility for care and treatment is shared, care planning must be timely to maintain people’s health, safety and welfare.

    CQC understands that there may be inherent risks in carrying out care and treatment, and they will not consider it to be unsafe if providers can demonstrate that they have taken all reasonable steps to ensure the health and safety of people using their services and to manage risks that may arise during care and treatment.

    How QCS can help you further with quality improvement

    QCS’ risk assessment module can further support with this process and allows providers to ensure all aspects of the risk assessment process are fully achieved. The module provides a risk assessment platform which houses all the key features required to complete a robust and sufficient risk assessment. In addition, QCS provide:

    • Fully compliant policies, procedures and supporting documents
    • Mock inspection toolkits reflecting the key questions
    • Satisfaction Surveys for Service Users, Relatives, Staff and Visiting Professionals