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Change

About IPC at our Practice

• Minor editing and bulleted lists updated.
• New section – The Built Environment – added.

Cleaning, Disinfecting, and Sterilising

• This page now incorporates autoclave sterilisation.
• Guidance on this page has been updated to reflect best practice.
• Drop-down boxes have been added to provide more information, and the sterilisation procedure section has been updated and reorganised to make it easier to follow.

Cleaning the Practice

• New paragraph about who cleans the practice.
• Updated/new sections providing greater detail: Recommendations for different surfaces, cleaning products and equipment, cleaning blood and body fluid spills.

Managing Infectious Patients

• Guidance updated to capture all infectious outbreaks, not just COVID-19.
• Red-stream information reformatted to make it easier for practices to customise.

Notifiable Diseases

• Page restructured to improve readability.

Pandemic Response

• Page edited for clarity.

Standard Precautions

• Page restructured to improve readability.

Cryotherapy, Drugs for Injection, Venepuncture, Wound Care

• Pages deleted. Key information moved to Standard Precautions.

Autoclave Sterilising

• Page deleted. Information added to the new Cleaning, Disinfecting, and Sterilising page.

Child Protection

• Link to the report of concern form has been removed, as the Oranga Tamariki | Ministry for Children website advises they do not have an online form at present.