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National Infection Prevention and Control Manual

National Infection Prevention and Control Manual

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About the Manual
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Chapter 1 - Standard Infection Control Precautions (SICPs)
Chapter 2 - Transmission Based Precautions (TBPs)
Chapter 3 - Healthcare Infection Incidents, Outbreaks and Data Exceedance
Chapter 4 - Infection Control in the Built Environment and Decontamination
Addendum for High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID)
Addendum for Infection Prevention and Control within Neonatal Settings (NNU)
A-Z Pathogens
Glossary
Appendices
Resources
Winter preparedness campaign 2025

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Aerosol Generating Procedures (AGPs)
Care Home IPC resource for respiratory illness
Care Home IPC resource for gastro-intestinal illness
Care Home IPC Resource Toolkit
Care Home IPC Webinar: Scabies Back to Basics - 23 October 2024
Care Home IPC Webinar: Waste Management Back-to-Basics - 12 December 2024
Care Home IPC Webinar: Actively Preventing Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) in Care Homes - 3 September 2025
Literature reviews
Decontamination and built environment
Hand hygiene
Incidents and outbreaks
Management of care equipment
Management of the care environment
Patient management
Pandemic response
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Transmission Based Precautions definitions
Healthcare Water Systems Associated Organisms Incident or Outbreak Checklist
High Consequence Infectious Diseases (HCIDs)
Information Leaflets
Information Leaflets - language translations
Norovirus - key steps to help stop the spread of infection poster
Outbreak Checklist
Quality Improvement Tools (QITs) - Inserting and maintaining a central vascular catheter (CVC)
Quality Improvement Tools (QITs) - Person with a known or suspected CDI
Quality Improvement Tools (QITs) - Inserting and maintaining a peripheral vascular catheter (PVC)
Quality Improvement Tools (QITs) - Inserting and maintaining a urinary catheter (UC)
Quality Improvement Tools (QITs) - Patient needing a surgical procedure
Quality Improvement Tools (QITs) - Taking a sample for blood culture
Quality Improvement Tools (QITs) - Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) Prevention
Respiratory infections - key steps to stop the spread poster
Respiratory Screening
Trigger tools
Campaigns
Hand hygiene day
Winter planning
Winter preparedness campaign assets
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Management of care equipment

Safe management of linen
Management of care equipment (Version 1.0, January 2021)
SBAR: Decontamination of Blood Gas Analysers

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