Infection control is vital in all aspects of health and social care provision. Infection prevents healing and destroys lives, so all health and social care workers have a responsibility to maintain a clean and healthy environment. This article describes a code of practice designed to standardise infection prevention measures, the resources that infection control leads can use, the standards to adhere to and the training needed by all health and social care staff and volunteers.
Primary Health Care. doi: 10.7748/phc.2017.e1292
Correspondence Peer reviewThis article has been subject to double blind peer review and checked for plagiarism using automated software
Received: 22 March 2017
Accepted: 13 June 2017
Published online: 22 August 2017
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