Social Care Infection Prevention & Control One Day Refresher Course

This sector course caters to Care Home Managers, Nurses, designated Care Home IPC Lead/Champion

This intensive, practice-based study day is intended for registered managers, registered nurses and senior support staff who have managerial responsibilities for the care of adult and elderly service users in residential and nursing care homes. The study day assumes that delegates will have a basic level of understanding of day-to-day infection prevention and control issues inc. Standard Infection Control Precautions and will be experienced in managing day-to-day IPC related events inc. outbreaks of infection in a range of social care environments. This study day does NOT provide training in the basic principles of IPC. This knowledge can be obtained on our two-day RCN-accredited Infection Control Link Practitioner (ICLP) and Lead course, which can also be booked online.

Click here for the aims and outcomes of the Infection Prevention and Control One Day Refresher Course.

Link Practitioner Refresher Course 2026-2027 – Social Care

MORNING SESSION: 09.30 to 12.30 with comfort/coffee break

1. Welcome and Introduction

Course agenda and outcomes and delegates’ objectives

2. Strategic Overview 2025/2026

• Key guidance/legislation update including:
  • Health & Social Care Act (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
  • National IPC Manual (latest update)
  • Board Assurance Framework
  • National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2025
  • National Action Plan for Antimicrobial Resistance 2024 – 2029
• Current hot topics 2026
  • Acute Respiratory Infection s (ARIs) inc. 2025/26 immunization programme
  • Measles – learning outcomes from Midlands’ measle outbreak
• Overview of key clinical issues of relevance

3. Professional development of IPC link/leads

• Local developments and challenges of the IPC link/lead role – group discussion
• IPC Annual Programme – what is your experience to date?
• 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

5.  Implementation of national standards of healthcare cleanliness

• Key components
• Group discussion – implementation successes and challenge

6.  Built Environment 

• Importance of IPC in the built environment (HBN 00-09)
• Group discussion – how involved are you?

What are the important elements of the built environment in relation to IPC

7. Clinical Practice – practical applications and considerations

• Clinical equipment decontamination schedules
• Invasive device care
• Gram Negative Blood Stream Infections (GNBSI) reduction and the role of Catheter
• Acquired Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI)

     Conclusion & evaluation

• Where to from here?
• Did you achieve your objectives?
• Evaluation via online poll

16:00 CLOSE