Sunday 5th February 2012

Infection Control Week

Infection Control Week is an event held every year to educate staff and highlight the work undertaken in local hospitals and community healthcare settings to keep patients and clients safe and free from healthcare associated infections. This page provides information to help make Infection Control Week successful.

Resources

The success of this week will depend on you providing a variety of activities and promotional posters/information to ‘grab’ everyone’s attention:

  • Decide what your message is and who your target audience may be – consider their knowledge base and needs.
  • Advertise your event throughout the Trust (e mail, word of mouth, IC link staff, meetings)
  • Source the information, posters and equipment you will need
  • Remember that adults learn by doing and participation as much as children do
  • Agree venues such as staff/visitor restaurant or main foyer with the person responsible for such decisions and book them in writing – consider presentations in high traffic areas
  • Source any free material available
  • Involve senior managers and clinicians – infection control is everybody’s responsibility – encourage them to participate
  • Share Trust surveillance information and positive messages about achievements
  • Activities contribute to the success of your event – get carried away and have fun!!
    • Schedule activities to encourage participation by as many staff as possible, avoiding peak work times
    • Do "reruns" to cover all shifts; tape presentations for staff that cannot be present, combine presentations with other activities (e.g. noontime lunch, during meetings)
    • Keep records of attendance for evaluation purposes

In order to help you organise your week, we provide the following documents (MS Word) which you can print: