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Updates to Addendum to the NIPCM for Infection Prevention and Control within the Neonatal Unit (NNU)

31 Aug 2018

The following changes have been made to the Addendum.

4.1 Placement of neonates/assessment for infection risk

The first sentence now includes '(this is currently under review)' when referring to the Assessment for infection risk.

The link to the 'Assessment for infection risk' page has been updated to say

'The clinical risk assessment (CRA) for microbiological screening on admission or transfer in the NNUs is currently under review by the Neonatal Units Infection Reduction Steering Group. This will be available in late September 2018.'

4.2 Healthcare infections, incidents, outbreaks and data exceedence

The second bullet point has been changed from 'three or more cases' of colonisation with same organisms to 'two or more cases' of colonisation with the same organism.