13th Edition Workbook

An educational Workbook has been produced specially for Care Home settings to help with CQC requirements and achieve compliance with the Health and Social Care Act 2008: code of practice on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance.

This Workbook is designed for all staff levels of staff who should receive their own personal copy to work through at their own pace.

• Size: A5 colour 80 page booklet printed or digital format
• Target: For use in Care Homes
• Purchase: Available to purchase in printed or digital format.  The digital Workbook (which is sent via email) consists of a PDF of the Workbook, together with a ‘Question sheet’, ‘Answer sheet’ and ‘Certificate of completion
  

  1.  Preventing Infection Workbook: Guidance for Care Homes (minimum order quantity = 10)
  Qty (1 per member of staff)	10-15	16-30	31-45	46-60	61+
  Price per printed book	£5.49	£4.95	£4.39	£3.85	£3.29
  Price per digital book	£4.41	£3.91	£3.39	£2.89	£2.37

After 12 months from your original order for the Workbook for Care Homes, you will be able to purchase a new set of questions for staff to use with their original Workbook.  This is helping to provide a cost effective means of ensuring staff receive their annual IPC training for a second year.  The cost for this new set of questions would be £1.00 per member of staff and you would receive a new Question sheet, Answer sheet (for manager’s use) and Certificate.  Contact us if you require further information.

The Workbook comprises:

• National guidance
• Evidence-based information
• 20 topics including the 10 Standard infection control precautions, Antimicrobial stewardship, Aseptic technique, Specimen collection, Urinary catheter care, UTI prevention, C. difficile, MRGNB, MRSA, Respiratory illnesses and Viral gastroenteritis/Norovirus
• Each topic includes a ‘Test your knowledge’ section
• When 100% IPC knowledge has been achieved, managers sign the ‘Certificate of completion’ at the end of the Workbook, providing evidence for CQC compliance
• The Workbook should be kept by the member of staff as part of their portfolio of evidence of learning and can be used as a reference guide for day-to-day working

The Workbooks are brilliant resources and staff are lucky you are there to support them. Completion of the Workbook would be an ideal way for Care Home owners to demonstrate staff training to the CQC

Elaine Biscoe, National Nursing Advisor, Care Quality Commission

London Head Office

I would like to say I have used the Preventing Infection Workbooks for both existing staff, as a refresher and for new starters. The booklets have received high praise from the individuals using them and they have been a great tool for provoking important discussions relating to hygiene standards.

Mandy McCarthy-Ward, Care Home Training Manager

Derbyshire

There are now nearly 285,000 staff working in the health and social care sector who have been educated using the ‘Preventing Infection Workbooks’ including County Councils across the country such as North Yorkshire, York, Cumberland, Devon, Kirklees and Westmorland & Furness.

Full details on the Workbook are available on the flyer below.

Short video giving a virtual tour of a Workbook:

Updated: 12/11/2025