Infection prevention and control

The Leeds Community Healthcare (LCH) NHS Trust Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) team aim to provide timely expert advice. We work in close partnership with Leeds City Council, NHS Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, the voluntary sector and others.

Our annual programme of work supports the trust to deliver infection prevention and control standards which are aligned to national policies and local priorities serving the population of Leeds. This includes:

• Monitoring HCAI trends and highlighting areas for IPC intervention
• Monitoring and surveillance of outbreaks
• Provision of expert clinical advice and support to staff and public to identify and manage infection incidents and outbreaks including, as appropriate, the facilitation of root cause analysis, clinical case reviews and (or) post infection reviews
• Auditing of IPC standards including environments and hand hygiene to an agreed criteria making recommendations for change, monitoring progress and reporting to the Trust’s Quality and Safety Committee
• Developing and delivering IPC education and training programmes
• Supporting and developing IPC Champions
• Provision of expert IPC advice into the planning of new services, new builds, refurbishments projects and purchasing of new equipment