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Infection Control
Contact us:
Telephone +44 113 3922691 (for the Leeds Dental Institute - +44 113 2336222)
Who are the Infection Control Team ?
The Infection Control Team are
- Senior Nurses, Infection Control Nurses, Nurse Consultant and Infection Control Specialist Advisor
- Infection Control Doctors (Medical Microbiologists)
- Biomedical scientists
- Administrative staff
What do we do?
The infection control team works to help prevent hospital acquired infection by:
- Providing an advice service for staff to help them prevent and manage infection. We can advise on the management of individual patients, or on clusters or outbreaks of infection. We are also available for advice about decontamination of equipment and the environment, or about best practice in the prevention of infection associated with any area of health care.
- Conducting a programme of audit (environment and practice) and surveillance.
- Producing guidelines for all staff on the prevention and management of infection.
- Providing input to the education programmes provided by the trust for all staff.
- Being involved in research to improve infection control practice.
- Liasing with staff involved in purchasing and planning to ensure infection control issues are given a high priority in their activities.
- Liasing with other departments to provide infection control input e.g. Occupational Health, Catering and Effective practice.
UKCRC Modernising Medical Microbiology
- Establishing how new strain typing and database technologies can be optimally integrated into Microbiology service and research - to track and identify outbreaks in Staphylococcus aureus, Clostridium difficile and Norovirus.
http://www.modmedmicro.ac.uk/ethics
Infection Control Policies
NOTE: where the Leeds Dental Institute policy differs from the Leeds Teaching Hospitals generic policy click on the link in the right hand column (if this column is blank LDI uses the generic policy).
| Infection Control Policies | Leeds Teaching Hospitals | Leeds Dental Institute |
| 1. When should you contact infection control ? - Please see Policy 29 | PDF  |
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| 2. Standard (Universal) Infection Control Precautions | ||
| 3. Notification of Communicable Diseases | PDF |
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| 4a Hand Hygiene | PDF |
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| 4b. Hand Hygiene in Practice | PDF |
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| 5. Decontamination of Hospital Equipment Including Medical Devices | PDF |
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| 6. Gastrointestinal Infections | PDF |
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| 7. Viral Gastroenteritis | PDF |
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| 8. Clostridium difficile Infection (Interim February 2008). | PDF |
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| C difficile Appendix A | PDF |
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| C difficile Appendix B | PDF |
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| C difficile Appendix C | PDF |
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| C difficile Appendix - advice | PDF |
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| 9. Source Isolation. | PDF |
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| 10. Enteral Feeding | PDF |
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| 11. Considerations for the Control of Infection Following Patient Death | PDF |
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12. Infection Control Management of Tuberculosis (including Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis - see appendix A). |
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| 13. Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) | PDF |
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| 14. Control of an Outbreak of Infection in Hospital | PDF |
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| 15. Staphylococcus aureus and MRSA | PDF |
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16. Needlestick Policy and Actions to be Taken after Exposure to Blood and Body Fluids (including HIV Post-Exposure Prophylaxis) Main Policy |
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| Out of Hours Needlestick/Splash/Bite Injury Flow Chart |
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| Office Hours Needlestick/Splash/Bite Injury Flow Chart | PDF |
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| 17. See Guideline 5
Prevention of Infection Associated with Central Venous Catheters (CVCs) |
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| Packaging and Transport of Specimens (Main Policy) | PDF |
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| Appendix A |
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| Appendix B |
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| Appendix C |
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| 18. Infection Control Policy - Please see Policy 27 | PDF |
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| 19. Decontamination of Endoscopes | PDF |
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| 20. Protective Isolation | PDF |
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| 21. Multi-drug Resistant Organisms | PDF |
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| 22. Varicella (Chicken Pox & Shingles - VZV) | PDF |
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| 23. Respiratory Viruses | PDF |
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24. Scabies |
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| 25. Group A Streptococcal Infections | PDF |
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| 26. Source Isolation Cleaning | PDF |
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| 27. Managing the risks associated with infection prevention and control | PDF |
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| 28. Decontamination of Dental Unit Waterlines | PDF |
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| 29. Toy Cleaning | PDF |
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| 30. Asepsis Policy | PDF |
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| 31. Infections (Alert Conditions) that require Source Isolation | PDF |
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| 32. Safe Placement of Patient with Suspected or Diagnosed Infection | PDF |
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| Infection Control Guidelines | ||
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| 1. Control and Prevention of Aspergillosis and other Invasive Fungal Infections During Building Work |
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| 2. Danger of Infection Samples | PDF |
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| 3. Infection control planning information. Issue 2 -March 2006 | PDF |
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| 4. Guidance for blood culture sampling in adults | PDF |
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| 5. Prevention of infection associated with central venous catheters (CVCs) | PDF |
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Viral Haemorrhagic Fever guidelines - HPA guidance - available at www.hpa.org.uk/infections/topic_az/VHF/ACDP_VHF_guidance |
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LTHT GUIDELINES |
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LTHT Guidelines for insertion and management of peripheral venous cannuale (PVC) |
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All policies and guidelines are reviewed at least every 2 years, or earlier in light of significant new evidence