Please note that the title of Q 2: quality assurance in the diagnostic virology and serology laboratory has changed to quality assurance in the diagnostic infection sciences laboratory. 

Published 2021

A resource to provide healthcare epidemiologists working in acute-care hospitals with a high-level overview of incident management for infectious diseases outbreaks and to prepare them to work within an emergency response framework.

Published December 2017

System analysis is a retrospective review of a patient safety incident undertaken in order to identify what, how and why it happened. This system analysis tool is a sample tool, designed to be used/adapted as appropriate locally. Published 2014.

This quality standard covers preventing and controlling infection in adults, young people and children receiving healthcare in primary, community and secondary care settings. It includes preventing healthcare-associated infections that develop because of
treatment or from being in a healthcare setting. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.

Published date: April 2014, reviewed 2017

This quality standard covers preventing and treating surgical site infections. It covers adults, young people and children having a surgical procedure that involves a cut to the skin in all healthcare settings. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.  Published 2013 and updated in 2017.

This quality standard covers the care of babies who need specialist neonatal services, including transfer services. Specialist neonatal services deliver special, high-dependency, intensive or surgical care to newborn babies. It describes high-quality care in
priority areas for improvement.

Published date: October 2010 reviewed 2017