Infection Control
Providing high quality services in a safe and clean environment is our number one priority, therefore infection prevention and control maintains a high profile with United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
The infection control team are involved in multidisciplinary working, strategic planning and offering expert advice, helping to maintain high standards across all of our hospitals.
Education in infection prevention and control remains a core activity with policy development, audit of the environment and staff practice and surveillance of alert organisms.
The Trust's rates of MRSA and Clostridium difficile continue to compare favourably with those of many similar hospitals in England and Wales however we cannot afford to be complacent as bacteria like to survive and adapt to fight off the effects of antibiotics resulting in antibiotic resistance.
The infection control team works with healthcare staff both within the organisation and across boundaries to ensure that our annual programme of work is actioned, reviewed and updated to ensure that we all work to objectives aimed at minimising and controlling infection.
The overall team is made up of four consultant microbiologists and six nurses based throughout the organisation as follows:
- Two microbiologists and three nurses at Lincoln County Hospital
- One microbiologist and two nurses at Pilgrim Hospital, Boston
- One microbiologist and one nurse at Grantham and District Hospital
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