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Advice and Information
Infection Prevention and Control
Who We Are and What We Do
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The Infection Prevention and Control Nursing (IPCN) Team promote cross working, common policy/guidance and the sharing of expertise to prevent and reduce healthcare associated infection (HCAI) and transmissible infectious disease. The Director of Infection Prevention and Control (DIPC) is the public face of infection prevention and control for Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust and all their provided services in North Yorkshire. The DIPC is responsible for producing an Annual Report which provides details of all aspects of the organisation’s infection prevention and control programme and includes HCAI data for the Trust. The DIPC has the executive authority and responsibility for ensuring the implementation of strategies to prevent avoidable healthcare associated infections (HCAIs) at all levels in the organisation. The DIPC, additionally, has overall responsibility for creating a culture of effective hygiene practice “to ensure that infection control is everyone’s business”. A copy of the Role Profile for the Director of Infection Prevention and Control can be found at www.clean-safe-care.nhs.uk/... |
Professor Kevin Kerr Director of Infection Prevention and Control |
| Name | Role | Locality Base | Telephone |
| Andrew Collyer | Head of Infection Prevention and Control Nursing Service | Hambleton & Richmondshire | 01845 573819 |
| Margaret Jenkins | Infection Prevention and Control Specialist Nurse | Scarborough Whitby & Ryedale | 01723 342878 |
| Gill Johnson | Infection Prevention and Control Specialist Nurse | Hambleton & Richmondshire | 01845 573853 |
| Sonya Ashworth (formerly Mills) | Decontamination / Infection Prevention and Control Nurse Specialist | Hambleton & Richmondshire | 01845 573917 |
| Anna Padget | Education Resource Specialist | Hambleton & Richmondshire | 01845 573848 |
| Jill Roe | Surveillance and Support Officer | Hambleton & Richmondshire | 01845 573869 |
A 24 hour, 7 day a week Infection Prevention and Control Service is provided. The IPCN on call can be contacted through your local acute hospital switchboard.
Key Functions:
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Provide infection control advice to all PCT staff
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Provide infection control advice / service to the wider community e.g. private / voluntary care sector, care homes, nurseries, schools, social services and prisons
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Ensure Department of Health directives / guidance are enacted
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Provision of the local TB Nursing Liaison Service
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In collaboration with the North Yorkshire Health Protection Unit respond operationally to communicable disease incidents
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Reduction of risk associated with healthcare-associated infection
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Provision of education/training sessions and programmes
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Advice relating to the care and treatment of individual patients with infection
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Advice relating to outbreak prevention and management
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Production, distribution, promotion and update of infection control policies, guidance and protocols
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Resource for information relating to infection control and prevention topics
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Promotion of evidence based practice
To ensure a seamless service, close working relationships are maintained with the Infection Control Nurses in the acute hospital trusts, Microbiology, Occupational Health, Environmental Health Departments and the Consultants in Communicable Disease Control.
