For Care Homes

Access your dedicated area of SAFE (Standards Assurance Framework for Excellence) here.

The SAFE training demo video and SAFE IPC policy module will be shared with you once you have completed your SAFE training.

Read the SAFE care home manager user guide.

Find out more from the Infection Protection and Control (IPC) Team on the WCHC website. There you will find helpful resources and videos covering key topics, such as:

• Covid-19 infection prevention video
• Hand hygiene
• Influenza (flu)
• Anti-microbial resistance

Urinary tract infections cause a significant burden of infections in our older people and a high rate of hospital admissions. This can be improved by implementing some relatively simple measures.

Please watch BOTH the training animation (entitled ‘To Dip of Not to Dip’, YouTube video) AND training presentation below (total time 30 minutes).

It is helpful to download the UTI infection assessment tool and the Hydration Risk Assessment Tool from the ‘Resources for staff’ section below as both the video and training presentation will guide you through scenarios on how to complete the assessments.

Please also remember to complete the surveys (links below). The pre-session survey to record your attendance (setting and numbers attending only) and knowledge prior to training and the post-session survey to test your knowledge following the training and to access a certificate of attendance.

To access the surveys as mentioned in the training above, click the following:

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/UTI_Pre_SessionSurvey/

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/UTI_Post_SessionSurvey/

Resources for staff:

To dip or not to dip – training handbook

UTI infection assessment tool

Hydration Risk Assessment Tool

Scenarios for UTI

Hydration and fluid balance monitoring chart

How to take a urine sample for care staff

Suspected UTI poster

Beat the heat – keeping residents safe during heatwaves

Competency assessment for staff

Resources for residents/relatives

How to take a urine sample for patients

Hydration information leaflet

Signs of dehydration poster

To dip or not to dip – patient and relative leaflet

Keep hydrated poster

Other useful resources

Safety Soundbite – Preventing UTIs and Improving Hydration

Wirral working together to improve hydration and prevent and improve treatment of UTIs

Video – Out of hospital management of UTIs in elderly patients – YouTube

Think Kidney – AKI Home – Acute Kidney Injury (thinkkidneys.nhs.uk)

Keeping Kidneys Safe – Know How Medicines Affect the Kidneys – YouTube

Antibiotic resistance – Why not become an antibiotic guardian?

 

To access the survey links as mentioned in the training above, click the following:

• https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/HandHygienePresession/
• https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/handhygienepostsession/

If the above video is not compatible with your screen reader, you can access it at the bottom of the page.

 

To access the survey links as mentioned in the training above, click the following:

• https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/KeepingUpPreV2/
• https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/KeepingUpPostV2/

If the above video is not compatible with your screen reader, you can access it at the bottom of the page.

 

To access the survey links as mentioned in the training above, click the following:

• https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/PPEpreSession/
• https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/PPEpostSurvey/

If the above video is not compatible with your screen reader, you can access it at the bottom of the page.

An online cleaning training course has been made available for all care homes. ‘Control of cross contamination’ is a course offered by The British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc).

Some of your staff may have already completed this course but we have arranged for 20 free places per month. An email will be sent to care homes with the code every month.

Access the Control of Cross Contamination course below:

https://bbs-virtual-training.thinkific.com/order?ct=56df67ef-c344-4dd8-ae1e-c4f65f4b10c8