The North East of England Skills Development Group successfully launched the Regional Infection Control Strategy at Hardwick Hall Hotel, on Thursday June 4th 2009. This was very enthusiastically welcomed by the attending sector members and applauded as a very useful and necessary resource.
This Strategy for the prevention, control and management ofpf Care Acquired Infections is intended to assist the development of appropriate policy to meet a variety of regulative requirements in health & social care organisations, direct payment recipients and to provide guidance to unpaid carers, volunteers, patients and service users across the North-East of England.
The Strategy provides a worksheet to support all new staff working in a Care setting to achieve an acceptable level of practical infection control knowledge on their first day at work. It also sets out clearly the personal responsibilities that everyone of us must accept to ensure that the highest standards of infection control are maintained in care homes and domiciliary care settings.
A critical recommendation contained in this Strategy is the development of a new role of Infection Control Champion. They will have a key role in helping to assist in the allocation of appropriate resources to provide comprehensive services to prevent health and social care associated infections and to identify gaps and bring these to the attention of the appropriate organisations.
The documents can be found in the electronic library or by direct link to the Infection Control Strategy and Infection prevention booklet which can be downloaded and printed should you wish to do so. All member organisations will be sent a hardcopy of both documents in the next few weeks.
