Infection Control

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This national manual provides practice guidance to all those involved in care provision and should be adopted by all NHS Boards.

The Manual currently contains Chapter 1: Standard Infection Control Precautions Policy and it is planned to further develop the manual, with the next planned chapter being Transmission Based Precautions.

The manual aims to align evidence based practice with monitoring, assurance, quality improvement and scrutiny by:

• providing straight forward practice requirements based on an assessment of the extant professional literature instigating consistency in practice and advice across NHS Scotland;
• promoting the application of evidence based care processes by staff;
• complementing national improvement programs and providing a focus for the development of local measurement plans to achieve sustained practical implementation of a small number of critical activities into everyday practice (making the right thing easy to do for every patient every time), thereby reducing variation in practice and improving patient outcomes i.e. reduced Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs).

Downloads

• National Infection Prevention and Control Manual V 2.1 (285 KB )

The appendices in the National Infection Prevention and Control Manual are available to download.N.B. the appendices below may differ from those available in your local NHS Board/Organisation who may have amended/inserted local documentation/Standard Operating Procedure appropriate to your NHS Board/Organisation.

• Appendix 1- How to hand wash step by step images
• Appendix 2- How to hand rub step by step images
• Appendix 3- Surgical rubbing:surgical hand preparation technique using antimicrobial soap- step by step image
• Appendix 4- Surgical rubbing:surgical hand preparation technique using alcohol based hand rub (ABHR)- step by step image
• Appendix 5- Glove use and selection
• Appendix 6- Putting on and removing PPE
• Appendix 7- Decontamination of reusable non-invasive patient care equipment
• Appendix 8-Decontamination status certificate
• Appendix 9- Procuring,trialling or lending any reusable non-invasive patient care equipment
• Appendix 10- Management of linen at care level
• Appendix 11- Management of blood and body fluid spillages
• Appendix 12- Management of waste at care area level
• Appendix 13- Management of occupational exposure incidents

The practice recommendations set out in the manual are drawn from appraisals of the available professional literature on each SICP for hospital settings.

• Literature reviews for Standard Infection Control Precautions

Compliance and Quality Improvement Data Collection Tool that can be used to monitor and assess compliance with SICP.

• http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/haiic/ic/publicationsdetail.aspx?id=50228