Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust take preventing and controlling infections seriously.
Therefore, it’s important to us that we protect you and your family from getting an infection during your stay in our hospitals.
We have a dedicated Infection prevention and Control Team who work across the Trust's footprint to:
- Provide specific infection prevention and control education and training trust wide
- Coordinating and implementing the annual infection prevention and control audit program
- Support staff with specialist advice
- Surveillance of specific healthcare associated infections, such as MRSA bloodstream infections and Clostridium difficile infection
- Supporting staff with outbreaks of infection to prevent onward transmission
- Conduct Post infection reviews to as certain future learning and share good practice
- Working closely on issues related to cleanliness of environment and equipment with facilities management teams
- Participating in evaluation of new technology and supporting national infection prevention and control collaborative projects
