In this month’s report, we explore some of the learning about good practice in infection prevention and control, and share some of the good examples we have encountered in understanding how providers have worked together to tackle COVID-19.
We want these insight reports to help everyone involved in health and social care to work together to learn from the pandemic. This includes:
- sharing and reflecting on what has gone well
- understanding and learning from the experience of what hasn't
- helping health and care systems prepare better for the future
Infection prevention and control
In this section, we look at good practice in infection prevention and control in three key settings:
- Acute hospital trusts
- Care homes
- GP surgeries
Section 1: Infection prevention and control
Provider collaboration reviews
In this section, we introduce:
- The work we have carried out to understand provider collaboration
- Some early headlines from the work
- Examples of good things we’ve encountered through the work
Section 2: Provider collaboration reviews
Our data
In this issue, we update our regular data including:
- outbreaks and staff absences in homecare services
- numbers of deaths of people detained under the Mental Health Act
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Download the report
You can download a version of this report if you want to print or share it with your team.
Related news
You can read our news story about this issue of the report:
Keeping people safe and supported through the pandemic.
Previous issue
You can read the issue of the report that we published in July. This issue looked at how providers were working together, how we respond to feedback about care, the financial viability of social care and the impact on the use of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.