Guidance

Monitoring surgical wounds for infection: information for patients

Explains surgical wound infection, and the national programme for monitoring infections acquired in hospitals, in English and 8 other languages.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Published: 1 July 2013
• Last updated: 22 September 2022 — See all updates

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Monitoring surgical wounds for infection: information for patients

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Monitoring surgical wounds for infection: information for patients – large-print version

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Details

This leaflet is available for healthcare professionals to download and print for patients who are included in post-discharge surveillance submitted to the UK Health Security Agency.

Details of how patients’ data is collected and used is published via the Surgical site infection surveillance privacy notice.

Translated versions of ‘Monitoring surgical wounds for infection: information for patients’ were published by Public Health England in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujarati, Polish, Punjabi and Urdu.

Published 1 July 2013
Last updated 22 September 2022 + show all updates

1. 22 September 2022

   Updated leaflets.

2. 19 August 2021

   Added link to surgical surveillance privacy notice page.

3. 23 August 2018

   Added Monitoring surgical wounds for infection: information for patients in large print.

4. 1 June 2016

   Updated English edition of existing leaflet.

5. 20 April 2016

   Added translations to existing leaflet on surgical infection.

6. 1 July 2013

   First published.