Infection Control and Decontamination
Effective decontamination and infection control is reliant on each team member knowing what they should do and having the skills to put this knowledge into practice
Training sessions
Two in- practice training sessions have been developed for any NHS practice who requests this support. The first session consists of hand hygiene, cleaning dental instruments and cleaning the clinical environment. The second includes operating and testing decontamination equipment. The training sessions last approximately three hours and will be suitable for the whole dental team.
In practices the support team will need access to the clinical areas, any decontamination facility and an area for the delivery of a short presentation and for discussions on the topic.
The main point of the training is to enable practices to look at their existing processes and to consider any changes required to improve and thus bring the practice closer to the requirements of current guidance. Formulating an agreed action plan detailing timescales and responsibilities is an essential component of the training.
The support team will arrange a follow-up date around 8 weeks after the training to find out how the action plan is progressing and provide advice and support if there have been any difficulties in delivering the action plan.
This training will be available free of charge to NHS practices until December 2012
All participating dentists, who are eligible, will be able to claim CPD allowance for the three hour session. Participation in a training session will be recorded in your CPD history in Portal.
Short online programme
A short online programme which could be used as part of induction or as refresher training is available via the NES Portal at https://www.portal.scot.nhs.uk/.
