Consultation outcome

Prevention and control of infections: code of practice

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 30 January 2015

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Response to the consultation on the Health and Social Care Act 2008 code of practice for prevention and control of infections and related guidance

PDF, 319 KB, 13 pages

Detail of outcome

This document provides a brief overview of the consultation responses and the consequent changes to the revised Health and Social Care Act 2008 code of practice for the prevention and control of infection and related guidance.

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Original consultation

Summary

Seeks views on the revised code of practice for prevention and control of infections and the related guidance.

This consultation ran from
30 January 2015 to 11:45pm on 13 March 2015

Consultation description

We have updated the code of practice for prevention and control of infections and would welcome your input and comments.

We want the code of practice to:

• follow new registration requirements which come into force in April 2015
• give more prominence to the issue of antimicrobial resistance as part of the UK AMR Strategy
• reflect changes to the way the NHS is organised
• update the bibliography

Documents

The Health and Social Care Act 2008: Code of Practice on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance

PDF, 1.28 MB, 96 pages

Letter: revision of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 code of practice on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance

PDF, 391 KB, 9 pages

Published 30 January 2015