Clinics – Infection Prevention & Control One Day Refresher Course

This sector course caters to Clinics; Diagnostic & Treatment Centres; Day Surgery

This course provides an ideal refresher course for IPC lead/link practitioners for discussion, debate and appraisal of the challenges of achieving compliance with revised fundamental standards and specifically the Code of Practice (2022) for the prevention and control infections. Many different service models are evolving but the problems relating to IPC remain the same. How are you tackling them in your practice? What are the challenges you are facing in providing assurance to commissioner and inspectors? How much support are you being given to tackling these challenges and delivering safe evidence-based care?

The day provides a focus on further enhancing your knowledge base in relation to key issue which provide particular challenges in primary care. Who is the course aimed at: This study day is intended for Clinics; Diagnostic & Treatment Centres; Day Surgery IPC leads.

and who have received previous IPC training and have an understanding of key IPC issues in Primary Care.

Click here for the aims and outcomes of the Infection Prevention and Control Lead and Link Practitioner Course

Link Practitioner Refresher Course 2025-2026

Independent Clinics and Day Surgery

MORNING SESSION – 9.30 to 12.30 – with comfort/coffee break

1. Welcome and Introduction

• Course agenda and outcomes and delegates’ objectives

2. Strategic Overview 2025-26

• Overview of key guidance/legislation including
  • Health & Social Care Act (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
  • National IPC Manual (latest update)
  • National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2025
  • National Action Plan for Antimicrobial Resistance 2024 – 2029
• Current hot topics 2025
  • Candidozyma auris; Measles – learning outcomes from Midlands’ outbreak
  • Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs) inc. 2025/26 immunization programme
• Overview of key clinical issues of relevance

3. Professional development of IPC link / leads

• Group discussion of your IPC link/lead role
• IPC Annual Programme – what is your experience?
• Risk assessment and auditing compliance with key policies
  • NHSE SICPs monitoring tool

4. Standard Precautions / Transmission-based precautions

• Group discussion re implementation and challenges

12:30 Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSION: 13.00 to 16.00 with comfort/coffee break

 Implementation of national standards of healthcare cleanliness

• Key components
• Group discussion – implementation successes and challenges

6. Built Environment

• Importance of IPC in the built environment (HBN 00-09)
• Group discussion – how involved are you?
• Important elements of the built environment in relation to IPC in clinics – including leased premises

7. Clinical Practice – practical applications and considerations

• Clinical equipment decontamination schedules
• Surveillance of surgical site infections (SSIs) – how are you doing?
• Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) guidance for MRSA screening
•     Conclusion & evaluation
• Delegates top learning outcomes?
• Did you achieve your objectives?
• Evaluation via online poll

16:00  CLOSE