The Infection Control Team consists of two full time staff. Both Kath Hughes and Mike Coltman can assist you in providing teaching, audit activity, one-off events, expert advice and support and outbreak management.

The NHS Framework 2010-11 illustrates the high profile infection control currently has in terms of the public interest. From the top five priorities infection control remains the number one main concern for the government. The public, media and political expectations are high and patient anxieties match this. Our main aim is to strengthen the Trusts commitment to the overall patient safety strategy.

On this webpage you will be able to download patient leaflets, access infection control policies, other health links and keep up with events and infection control courses.

In recent months, there has been increased pressure of the Infection Control team to monitor and interpret surveillance data from the secondary care services, and support the commissioning services in providing specialist advice to the commissioning process in terms of quality assurance of infection prevention programmes. This is set to continue further as the targeting of alert organisms will widen to include common pathogens that cause infection.

Cleanliness does play a part in tackling infection, it is simple and basic personal hygiene that really makes all the difference in both prevention and control of infection. It doesn’t matter whether you are a member of staff, a patient or a visitor; handwashing / hand decontamination is the single most important measure we can all take to prevent the spread of infection in our community.
All staff have a responsibility maintaining a clean and well kept environment in which patients are cared for, this is essential in preventing the spread of healthcare associated infections.

Infection prevention and control is everyone’s business.

Infection control policies and guidelines