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Essential steps to safe, clean care: reducing healthcare-associated infections
The delivery programme to reduce Healthcare associated infections (HCAI) including MRSA
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Document type:Publication
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Author:Department of Health
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Published date:15 June 2006
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Primary audience:Professionals
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Product number:275553
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Gateway reference:6679
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Pages:3
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Copyright holder:Crown
Essential steps to safe, clean care aims to provide a framework to support local organisations' use of best practice to prevent and manage the spread of infections and ultimately improve patient and service user safety.
Tools and products provided
- signposting to useful resources to inform users;
- three key Essential Steps that, if implemented within organisations, may impact significantly on reducing the level of infections;
- review tools to assist individuals/teams in monitoring compliance and to record continuous compliance or improvement;
- certificates for staff, to recognise their progress in performing safer practice;
- posters to provide simple safety messages to both staff and visitors.
- Download Front cover (PDF, 160K)
- Download Foreword (PDF, 47K)
- Download Introduction and guidance notes (PDF, 121K)
- Download Preventing the spread of infection (PDF, 312K)
- Download Enteral feeding (PDF, 351K)
- Download Urinary catheter care (PDF, 432K)
- Download Certificate (PDF, 164K)
- Download Essential steps enrolment order form (PDF, 52K)
- Download Essential steps order form (PDF, 52K)
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