Who We Are and What We Do
The Infection Prevention and Control Team promote matrix working, common policy/guidance and the sharing of expertise to prevent and reduce healtcare 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 NHS Doncaster and 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.
The DIPC has the executive authority and responsibility for ensuring the implementation of strategies to prevent avoidable HCAIs at all levels in the organisation and has overall responsibility for creating a culture of effective hygiene practice to ensure that infection control is 'everyone's business'.
The Infection Prevention & Control Teams
NHS Doncaster
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Wendy Feirn |
Head of infection Prevention & Control |
Sovereign House |
01302 566005 |
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Debra Eyre |
Infection Prevention & Control Nurse Specialist |
Sovereign House |
01302 566182 |
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Tracy Mitchell |
Infection Prevention & Control Team Secretary |
Sovereign House |
01302 566231 |
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Infection Prevention & Control Service is provided Monday - Friday during office hours with out of hours service provided via Doncaster Royal Infirmary switchboard contacting the Director of Public Heath on call.
Key Functions:
- Provide infection control advice to all NHS Doncaster and Doncaster Community Healthcare staff
- Provide infection control advice/service to the wider community eg independent contractors, care homes, schools and prisons
- Ensure Department of Health directives/guidance are enacted
- In collaboration with the Health Protection Agency respond operationally to communicable disease incidents
- Reduction of risk associated with healthcare associated infection
- Provision of education/training sessions and programmes
- Advice relating to the care and treatment of individual patients with infection
- Advice relating to outbreak prevention and management
- Production, distribution, promotion and update of infection prevention and control policies, guidance and protocols
- Resource for information relating to infection prevention and control topics
- Promotion of evidence base practice.
To ensure a seamless service, close working relationships are maintained with the Infection Prevention & Control Team in the acute hospital trust, Micobiology, Consultants in Communicable Disease Control, Occupational Health and the Environmental Health Departments within the Local Authority.
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