How to keep swine flu at bay in care homes
This excellent article from Community Care provides detailed advice for care home owners on how to minimise the spread of swine flu. They make the point that existing best practice around infection control is equaly applicable to swine flu. Given that we might have 100,000 new infections per day by the end of August, homes should have their planning in place now.
“Care home providers are prepared to some degree for an outbreak of
swine flu, given that they already have measures in place to deal with
diseases such as MRSA. Ginny Storey, head of care and clinical
governance for Anchor Trust, the largest not-for-profit provider of
residential and nursing care in the sector, says cases of MRSA are low
in care homes and often those who have it bring it into the home
following a stay in hospital. Many people carry it on their skin and it
only becomes dangerous when someone has a wound such as an ulcer, she
adds. One of the most common groups who contract the disease are older
men with urinary catheters.”
Read the full story at Community Care
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on 27. Jul, 2009