Infection Control

By definition; any environment involving individuals needing health or social care services increases infection risks and in an environment where those individuals are more susceptible to the serious negative consequences of infection. This magnifies the pressing need to control infection. Health and social care workers are taught underpinning knowledge such as; for example; about micro-organisms; how infection spreads so that when they are exposed to the "control" elements of infection control they understand how the jigsaw comes together. In this way; health and social care workers are better enabled to adopt and apply what they have learned which means infection risks are actually controlled to the benefit of all.