Policy paper

Review of the infection prevention and control nurse workforce

Provides information on location, number, functions, skills and competences of the infection prevention and control (IPC) nursing workforce.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care, Public Health England and Health Education England
• Published: 1 July 2015

This was published under the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

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Review of the infection prevention and control nurse workforce

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Details

The report has found the following:

• IPC nurses are situated in different organisations, which all have different remits and responsibilities
• there is no uniformity in person specifications or core competencies for IPC nurses
• there is no clear defined pathway into IPC nursing and there is no ‘set’ qualification
• there is substantial variability in team structures and IPC service delivery models
• it is difficult to count the number of IPC nurses within care homes since the IPC leads there are not necessarily IPC nurses
• there is currently no formal national network for IPC nursing

Published 1 July 2015