Nhs County Durham Infection Control Team

Some great advice here for staff and residents

Back to basics Hand hygiene remains the most important part of good infection prevention and control. It’s vital that staff in all areas of healthcare , including care homes know the correct hand hygiene technique and when the should be washing their hands .Make sure your staff /colleagues have awareness of this , do you undertake hand hygiene audits within your home ?

Thanks to all our champions who have attended the meetings over the last 2 weeks and to the managers who have released staff to come along , without your input into the meetings they don’t have the same impact 💖

https://www.facebook.com/RJAH.NHS/videos/ 162313121361863/. This is why the flu jab matters for staff as well as residents

The first of our champions meetings are next week , have you booked your place ?The first of our champions meetings are next week , have you booked your place ?

Although not care home related awareness is key to early diagnosis and treatment

Our care home champion meeting dates have been set and venues organised, watch this space for more information coming soon

Struggling to get fluids into your residents in hot weather can be a real challenge but as we’ve stated before it’s really important for their health , did you know fluid from food can account for up to 20% of your daily intake have a look at the slides below from Northumbrian water

Summer is coming and dehydration is a real threat to our elderly population both in care homes and in the community , it can lead to significant health problems ,there are a number of ways to boost hydration in our residents as detailed below in a slide shown at Conference by North Tees and Hartlepool FT, is this something you can boost in your home?

Fantastic conference organised by the North east IPS today at the Xcel centre in Newton Aycliffe , hope some of you made it , great to see some of the work produced by DDES Infection Prevention and Control team being used by other teams across our local area

FREE STUDY DAY run by the North East Infection prevention society, this is usually a very interesting day with speakers from lots of different backgrouds , the programme has not yet been published however here the link to the event https://www.ips.uk.net/…/ips-north-east -branch-conference…/…

Do you know about signs of sepsis ? Follow the link for useful resources and information of signs of sepsis https://sepsistrust.org/education/clinica l-tools/

Are you glove aware ? RCN campaign to raise awareness on hand health and the correct gloves / use of gloves , well worth a read https://www.rcn.org.uk/get-involv…/camp aigns/glove-awareness

Fantastic day at the Durham centre , with some thoroughly enjoyable speakers , thanks to all the speakers, the care homes , and champions who attended

Start of the day

We are looking forward to a great day tomorrow with some fabulous speakers,see you at the Durham Centre we’ll have the coffee on .

ATTENTION all Care Home Champions... Please remember to confirm your attendance at our Study Day held on Tuesday 27th March 2018 by Thursday 1st of March 2018.
We look forward to another informative session with you all!