Infection control in care homes
People in care homes can sometimes get infections that make them very ill or cause their health to get worse. Keeping care home residents safe and well is really important. We can achieve this by making sure infection prevention and control measures are strong and effective.
Managing individual infections and outbreaks
If you think you have someone with a notifiable disease in your care home, you should report it.
Guidance for preventing the spread of infections
You can sign up to our mailing list to get regular health protection updates:
Infection. Prevention. Control. (IPC)
We will email all care homes with details of the next link worker session.
We can also provide IPC booklets on request. Email us to tell us how many you'd like.
Further information
Find out more about:
- infection prevention and control in adult social care acute respiratory infection
- infection prevention and control in adult social care settings
- managing cases of suspected high consequence infectious diseases in adult social care
- managing specific infectious diseases: A to Z
- national infection prevention and control
- supporting safer visiting in care homes during infectious illness outbreaks
