We can undertake consultation work on an ad hoc contract basis in a wide range of clinical areas to ensure that there is compliance with current standards, guidance and legislation. Infection Control Solutions Ltd offers expert guidance on a wide variety of infection control related issues, including; assessing and managing risk; trust-wide Infection control audits; developing implementing and evaluating the annual infection control program to comply with appropriate legislation directives and guidance; mentoring and developing staff; provision of educational programmes etc.

In addition, we can undertake consultation work on an ongoing basis providing specialist staff to work in a healthcare organisation on a regular basis, dependent on the organisations need.

Currently our expertise is being used by a wide range of healthcare providers including:

Acute Hospitals
Primary Care Trusts
Health Protection Units
Mental Health & Forensics - both NHS and Independent sector
Care Homes
Independent Hospitals and clinics

The range of services provided includes:

1. Undertaking a needs assessment and scoping the infection control programme for the organisation for the forthcoming year taking account of legislation and DOH/HCC directives and ensuring compliance with relevant standards e.g. Winning Ways, Standards for Better Health, national minimum standards (independent sector).
    
2. Staff Training - Induction, post basic updates, ancillary, and support staff etc.
   See our training page for more training information.
    
3. Infection Control Link Practitioner (ICLP) training.
   See our training page.
    
4. Development of local protocols and policies and infection control manuals.
    
5. Attendance at relevant Infection Control committee meetings.
    
6. Risk assessment and baseline audit of clinical services e.g. environmental and decontamination audit. See our audit page for further information.
    
7. Telephone support 7am -7pm Monday - Friday.
    
8. Additional support for outbreak/serious untoward incident management.
    
9. Assisting in the selection and recruitment of infection control Nurses (ICNs).
    
10. Professional mentoring of newly appointed ICNs.

Our staff can provide a regular service on the clients premises providing specialist advice and contributing to the organisations annual programme of infection control activity. Usually our staff work on site either one or two days per week, providing telephone support for staff on other days to ensure that at all times the organisation has access to specialist advice.

This service is of particular benefit to those organisations:

• That currently do not have an infection control nurse in post
• Are not large enough to warrant employing a full time ICN (of particular relevance to small, independent -sector organisations).
• Who have ICNs in development posts but require specialist staff to support them during their development phase.