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Infection prevention and control

  • Quality standard
  • Reference number: QS61
  • Published:  17 April 2014
  • Quality standard
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  1. Implementation support
  2. Education
  3. Audit and service improvement
  4. Guidance into practice

Tools and resources

Tools and resources to help you put the guidance into practice.

Implementation support

  • Implementation resources - Antimicrobial stewardship: changing risk-related behaviours in the general population

  • Implementation resources - Antimicrobial stewardship: systems and processes for effective antimicrobial medicine use

  • Implementation resources - Healthcare-associated infections: prevention and control

  • Implementation resources - Healthcare-associated infections: prevention and control in primary and community care

  • How to use quality standards

  • Endorsed resource – Guide for Power PICC (Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters) Solo using Ultrasound and Sherlock 3CG

Education

  • Quick guide: Helping to prevent infection - for managers and staff in care homes

  • Quick guide: Understanding intermediate care, including reablement - for people using intermediate care services

Audit and service improvement

  • Quality standard service improvement template (Excel 1.18 MB)

    Published:
    04 March 2025
  • Using quality standards to improve practice in care homes for older people (PDF 278 KB)

    Published:
    11 January 2015

Guidance into practice

  • About the Into practice guide

  • Practical steps to improving the quality of care and services using NICE guidance

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