You’re right. A service does have a responsibility to pass on information that is available in the community to support families.

Your response:

Here is an example response:

Additional procedures are required in situations that involve potential risk of:

•airborne transmission

•droplet transmission of respiratory secretions

•contact transmission (direct or indirect) by people or surfaces that may be disseminators of infectious agents

•inherent resistance to standard sterilisation procedures or other disease-specific means of transmission.

When are additional infection control procedures required in the community services environment?