Infection Control in Care Homes with QCS

Care Home Infection Control

Be Confident and Stay Protected with Consistent Infection Control

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“QCS helps you feel protected with guidance that’s robust, researched and kept current.”

The rise of resistant infections can leave care homes exposed and vulnerable. Care home outbreak management has never been more important. QCS provides robust infection control policies for your care home, ensuring consistency across every site. With QCS you can prove every infection decision and evidence you did it right.

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Consistent Infection Control

Infection control is part of everyday care. But keeping policies up to date, making sure everyone follows the same approach and being able to evidence it during inspection isn’t always straightforward.

QCS gives your team one place to access the latest infection control guidance, policies and procedures, so everyone is working from the same information.

With QCS Infection Control, you can:

  • Access over 15 infection control policies and procedures in Word and PDF
  • Keep your guidance up to date without the manual work
  • Upload your own documents to reflect how your service works
  • Give staff 24/7 access online and through the QCS mobile app
  • Help your team follow a consistent approach to infection prevention
  • Build clear evidence of good infection control practice

Whether it’s day-to-day infection prevention or preparing for inspection, QCS helps make it easier to keep everyone informed, work consistently and show you’ve got the right processes in place.

At the core of your care should be robust infection control. Here’s how QCS helps:

Simple to Use

You can track all infection control activity, meaning you’ll have evidence you’re doing it right.

Infection Control Policies for Care Homes

QCS infection control policies provide consistency across staff and sites.

Easy upgrade path

Choose the infection control module for your site or upgrade to the full management system for peace of mind.

You’re Covered

Our assessment and action plans cover your premises, procedures, and equipment.

Evidence for when scrutiny arrives

Upload your own documents to personlise your system, so you can support your team, track and prove every infection decision.

Customisable system

QCS lets you change and customise the system so it can be personal to your business. This means it’s easy to use for all staff.

Weekly update email

We’ll let you know what’s changed, whether it matters, and who needs to act ensuring you have a fully robust system.

Build Staff Confidence

Easy to follow policies and procedures, available in word and pdf so everyone will know what to do.

Supports Quality Assurance

Meets the CQC definition of quality assurance so you can be fully confident you’re doing it right.

Provides Compliance

QCS is fully up-to-date with current infection control policies, as well as mental health and other legislation, so you can have peace of mind that everyone has what they need.

Meets CQC Requirements

Meet the requirements of the CQC with QCS. Our customisable policy documents can be specific to your organisation and are not generic.

Peace of mind

Join over 60% of QCS users who trust our content and stay protected from infections in your home.

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FAQs

  • For full infection control in care homes, you need every member of staff following the same trusted guidance. QCS works as part of the team. We provide up-to-date policies, easy-to-use procedures and clear action plans that are straightforward to follow meaning that there is consistency across sites. You’ll have confidence you’re site will stay protected, and you’ll have the evidence you did it right.

  • Keeping on top of changing guidance takes time, especially when you’re managing a busy service. QCS keeps your infection control policies for care homes current, then lets you know exactly what’s changed, whether it matters and who needs to act. That means less time checking updates and more confidence that your team is working from the latest guidance.

  • Yes. Effective care home outbreak management relies on clear processes and quick access to trusted information. QCS provides structured policies, assessments and action plans that help your team respond consistently and confidently. Because every decision is supported by current guidance, you have the evidence to show the right steps were followed if questions arise later.

  • When CQC asks how you’ve managed infection prevention and control, you need more than good intentions. You need evidence. QCS helps you record activity, personalise documents and maintain a clear audit trail, making it easier to show your infection control procedures have been followed consistently across your service.

  • Yes. We know every care service works differently, and staff needs vary. Your IPC policy for care homes should reflect your own procedures. QCS allows you to customise policies, upload your own documents and tailor guidance to your organisation. Your team still benefits from expert, up-to-date content while working in a way that fits your service.

  • Absolutely. One of the biggest challenges for multi-site providers is making sure every location follows the same approach. QCS gives every site access to the same infection control guidance, helping you build consistency across staff teams, while making it easier to evidence that every team is doing things right.

  • When you’re responsible for people’s safety, you want to know your decisions are based on trusted guidance. QCS gives your team expert infection control policies, keeps them current and helps you evidence every infection decision. So whether you’re supporting day-to-day care or responding to scrutiny, you be absolutely certain you are doing the right thing.

Ready to see how QCS can help? Book your personalised demo today.

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