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Chapel town Health Centre
Leeds
LS7 4BB
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Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Infection Prevention and Control
Policies and Guidelines
Disclaimer Statement
Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust Infection Prevention and Control Policy and
Guidelines have only been approved for Leeds Community Healthcare (LCH) NHS Trust
staff and premises. However, LCH Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)Team
recognises the need to have a whole system approach and as such offer these policies
and guidance for use to primary care practitioners and nursing / residential care homes /
hospices to adapt and modify to meet their own practices and organisations.
Guidance
LCH IPC Policies and Guidelines describe the precautions and control measures to
preventing and controlling infection in the community setting. LCH IPC policies and
guidance are based on evidence based practice and include advice on infection
prevention and control practice and specific guidance about communicable and
infectious diseases.
Good practice would be to have a designated person responsible for infection control in
each premise and ensures all staff access and read the policies and guidelines.
All staff play a important role in the prevention and control of infection.
Staff must be up to-date with infection control training and apply the practices and
precaution in the policies to ensure safe practice for themselves and their patients.
Good healthcare practice can substantially reduce healthcare associated infections.
By having high levels of infection control awareness in the wider community can
increase the recognition of early outbreaks, allowing effective control measures to be put
in place to minimise the impact within the community, to in-patient areas and to acute
hospitals.
The policies cannot and do not attempt to cover all eventualities in the wider community
healthcare economy. Further advice and information can be sought from the LCH
Infection Prevention and Control Team; Health Protection Agency; LCH Communicable
Disease Control Team or Consultants in Microbiology.
N.B it is your responsibility to check that the policy/guidance you are referring to is the
most recent issue of the document.
Chairman: David Richardson CBE
Chief Executive: Rob Webster