Our Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) team are a group of specialist practitioners who advise, support and empower both staff and patients within community services and health care settings across East, West and Wirral localities.
Our specialist team work together with all healthcare staff to identify infection risks and ensure patients receive care in a safe and clean environment.
The Infection Prevention & Control Team focuses on preventing the spread of infections, particularly in healthcare settings by interrupting the chain of transmission. Preventing and reducing the transmission of infectious diseases is essential to ensuring people stay healthy. We work with care providers to provide support and advice to reduce infections and ensure people receive person-centred support that follows effective IPC measures.
We also work with care providers to reduce the rising rates of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR is a global problem that makes infections harder to treat with existing medicines. High standards of IPC reduce the opportunities for infections to spread and for resistance to develop.
The team covers community services and mental health settings across East, West and Wirral localities. We provide support to Cheshire and Wirral Partnership settings, Care Homes, GP Surgeries, Community Care Teams, Health Centre’s and many more.
The team provide specialist support and advice to both staff and patients.
- IPC support and advice across the integrated service
- Education and training
- Policy, review, development, and maintenance
- Audit and surveillance
- Represent the IPC team locally and nationally (meetings and conferences)
- Link practitioner programme
- Root cause analysis and post infection reviews
- Risk Assessment
- Procurement (in partnership with the procurement team)
- Public Health response including outbreak management and incidents of infectious disease
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Health promotion
- Cleanliness, hygiene and decontamination
- Providing Tuberculosis (TB) services
You can contact the team by ringing 01244 397700
Monday to Friday 9am-5pm exclusive of bank holidays and weekends.
You can also email us at: cwp.
We welcome all feedback and would encourage you to report what you think we do well and areas where you think we can improve. To do this please follow contact the team who will send of a questionnaire.
National Infection Prevention and Control Manual (NIPCM) for England - NHS England » National infection prevention and control manual (NIPCM) for England
UK Health Security Agency - UK Health Security Agency - GOV.UK
Target - Course: TARGET antibiotics toolkit hub | RCGP Learning
NHS Choices - Conditions A to Z - NHS
World Health Organization, IPC - Infection prevention and control
