Our team provides expert infection prevention and control (IPC) advice and guidance to minimise infection risks and ensure best practice is embedded into everyday practice within the pre-hospital setting.
The team also undertakes the following activities:
- Delivery of IPC education and training for staff
- Promotion of infection prevention awareness campaigns
- Investigation of incidents and outbreaks, and coordination of appropriate control measures
- Ongoing audit and monitoring of IPC compliance
- Quality Improvement initiatives
- Ensuring the Trust adheres to current national standards and uses the most up-to-date evidence and guidance available.
These activities combined provide assurance that the Trust complies with the Health and Social Care Act 2008: code of practice on the prevention and control of infections and the National Infection Prevention and Control Manual for England 2025.
Information for patients
Helping us to care for you – Preventing the spread of Infection
If you have a known infection, please let your clinician know as soon as possible to ensure they implement the correct IPC precautions for providing you care. This includes:
- Tuberculosis (TB)
- Clostridioides difficile (c.diff)
- Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE)
- If you are experiencing diarrhoea and/or vomiting
Our clinicians may wear different items of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when attending, ranging from gloves through to fully protective suits and respiratory hoods. They may additionally ask you to wear a face mask too. Please do not let this worry you, applying these additional measures ensures they keep you, themselves and their colleagues safe from the onward transmission of potential infections.
Washing your hands with soap and water or using Alcohol-Based Hand Rub (ABHR) to decontaminate your hands regularly is a key element in preventing the spread of infection.
Our clinicians follow the World Health Organisation 5 moments of hand hygiene as part of our commitment to providing safe high-quality care.