IPS - Infection Prevention Society
Patrons Professor Didier Pittet and Professor Tricia Hart
Our Vision & Mission

Our vision is that no person is harmed by a preventable infection.

Our mission is to inform promote and sustain expert infection prevention policy and practice in the pursuit of patient or service user and staff safety wherever care is delivered.

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Latest News

IPS Human Factors Thought Paper
The IPS have prepared a Thought Paper: Integrating Human Factors with Infection Prevention and Control as part of the Health Foundation's Thought Paper series.  Please click here to view.
 
EPIC 3 - National Guidelines for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections in NHS hospitals (England) and other acute care settings
The Department of Health has commissioned the University of West London to revise the Epic2 national guidelines.  Please click here for further information.
 
Consultation on the PHE led, draft scoping document for the development of guidance on the prevention and management of exotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus
Please click here to participate in the consultation.  Closing date for return of comments to pa@ips.uk.net is the 13th June 2013
 
IPS Contributes to HSJ special supplement on hand hygiene
 Please click here to view the edition
 
IPS Board Business Plan 2013
Please click here to view

Self-Assessment Tool for the Competences Framework
 The EPDC has produced two versions of the Self-Assessment Tool, both of which are available for practitioners to use.  For further information and to access the the tool please click here
 
Patient Safety UK Congress 2013
IPS President chaired an infection prevention summit at Patient Safety UK Congress 2013 on 21st May, making our voice stronger again at national level.  http://www.patientsafetycongress.co.uk/
IPS got a special mention from Dr Phil Hammond at the close of day 1 at Congress.
 
IPS response to the Francis Report
To read the IPS response published in the Nursing Times on 12th February click here.
 
Report of the Patients Association, IPS and RCN
Read the press release and report of the survey of IPS members: "Rolling the Dice: CLICK HERE Could IPC be a victim of its own success?"

Whats On

24th June 2013

 

Champions Challenged 2013

Tuesday 2nd July 2013

 

IPS Welsh Branch National Conference 2013

30th Sept - 2nd Oct 2013

 

Infection Prevention 2013

Tuesday 1st October 2013

 

Infection Prevention in Perioperative Practice

Tuesday 1st October 2013

 

Infection Prevention in Dentistry
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Latest Guidance

Please click here to see recent guidelines and publications.

Outcome Competences for Practitioners in Infection Prevention and Control
Please click here
 
Self-Assessment Tool for the Competences Framework
For further information and to access the the tool please click here
 
Launch of Infection Prevention and Control Commissioning Toolkit
New IPS/RCN toolkit now available click here

Quality Improvement Tools
For QIT Tools Please click here.

Dental Audit Tool
Please click here for the Dental Audit Tool (V2 released June 2013)

Infection Prevention 2013

Have you seen miituu?  www.miituu.com

 
2012 Highlight:
 
Infection Prevention 2012 featured an array of inspiring and educational sessions.  Each month the slides and audio from one of these sessions will be made available to give a taster of conference.
 
 
 
  June's featured session is “The use of social marketing in health” from Gina Banns, Director, OxfordSM
To view this session CLICK HERE


 

Study Days at Infection Prevention 2013

There are four concurrent specialist study days also on offer at Infection Prevention 2013, for those working in Care Homes, Dental Practice, General Practice and Perioperative Practice.  As soon as these events are live information will be posted below.  Click on the images below for more information.

   

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