22/06/2010: MRSA Action UK: Prevention and control of infections in care homes conference

Guest Speaker Edwina Currie will be at the conference with providers, commissioners and regulators, presenting the risk factors involved, and the spread and decontamination of infections in care homes. See the brochure for more details.

The Health & Social Care Act 2008 requires all providers of adult social care and independent healthcare to register against the same framework and focuses on cleanliness and infection prevention and control requirements. There is an urgent need to ensure that good infection control practice is consistently but proportionately applied in all sectors so that the numbers of infections can be reduced and benefit service users. Improving the prevention and control of healthcare acquired infections is a national priority and ensuring the quality of existing services is no exception. Coinciding with the release of the new Code of Practice and related guidance, the one day conference has been developed to provide delegates with firsthand knowledge on critical topics including what the Code demands from care homes, the legal risks, the extent and costs of healthcare associated infections, among many others.