Sharps handling advice added to CQC FAQs
The CQC has updated its medicine FAQs for providers of adult social care. It has also added an FAQ on the safe…
Infection
Flu protection and treatment meds are now available on NHS
Due to increasing flu levels in the community, GPs and other prescribers working in primary care in England may now prescribe antiviral…
MPs call for regulation of care staff flu jabs
MPs have called on the social care regulator to “take action” in care homes where poor staff flu immunisation rates (or poor…
Free factsheet on controlling dysentery in care homes
Infection control company Cairn Care has launched a free fact sheet to help care homes prevent the spread of dysentery. Caused by…
NHS England announces free flu jabs for care staff
NHS England has announced that care staff are able to have a free flu jab, in a repeat of last year’s scheme.…
Get to grips with CPE
Infection control specialist, Cairn Care, has launched a free fact sheet on CPE (carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae) infections to help care homes to control…
Care home factsheet on Norovirus
Infection control company, Cairn Care, has launched a factsheet on Norovirus to help care homes prepare effectively for the threat of this…