A practical IPC policy for home care and care homes, mapped to the Code of Practice under the Health and Social Care Act 2008, with outbreak procedures, an audit checklist, cleaning schedule and exclusion guide.
Care providers
Infection Prevention and Control Policy
About this document
Your infection prevention and control (IPC) policy and procedures, setting out how you protect people, staff and visitors from infection. It is organised around the ten criteria in the Code of Practice on the prevention and control of infections, covers standard and transmission-based precautions, outbreaks, antimicrobial stewardship, staff health and specific infections, and includes an audit checklist, cleaning schedule, outbreak log and exclusion guide.
The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.
Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.
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