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Protecting patients, clients, and teams through best-practice protocols.

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This module outlines the standards required to ensure practices maintain a safe, hygienic, and biosecure clinical environment. It covers sterilisation, disinfection, hand hygiene, isolation procedures, PPE, vehicle cleanliness, and wider practice biosecurity policies.

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What This Module Covers

 

Module 7 ensures practices have:

  • Effective sterilisation and disinfection processes

  • Clear biosecurity and infection control protocols

  • Isolation facilities or robust SOPs

  • Proper hand hygiene provisions

  • Safe waste disposal and sharps handling

  • Clean, well-maintained vehicles

  • Minimised risk of cross-infection across all areas

All required documentation is listed below.

Required Documents
Core Standards

Required documents:

  • Written Scheme of Examination for autoclave

  • Certificate of Inspection for autoclave(Pressure Systems Safety Regulations)

  • SOP for isolation, including:

    • Waste disposal

    • PPE requirements

    • Cleaning and disinfection

    • Barrier nursing

    • COSHH references

    • Isolation area demarcation

  • Cleaning & disinfection schedules for all areas

  • SOP for cleaning and disinfecting equipment

  • SOP for vehicle cleaningVehicle cleaning logbook

    • Vehicle equipment checklist

    • Practice biosecurity policy, covering:

    • HygieneCleanliness of premises/equipment

    • PPE and clothing

    • Vehicle disinfection

  • Evidence of training and exposure monitoring (If ethylene oxide sterilisation is used)

General Practice

Additional required documents:

  • Cleaning protocols for all areas & vehicles

  • Cleaning audits demonstrating regular review

  • Colour-coded cleaning systems (where applicable)

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Veterinary Hospital

Additional required documents:

  • Written policy for isolation procedures
    (includes barrier nursing and care instructions)

  • Written protocol for risk-based deep cleaning
    (for all clinical areas)

  • Environmental monitoring documentation, if carried out
    (Swabbing, ATP, fluorescent marker checks, infection rate audits)

What Practices Will Need to Upload

 

  • SOPs

  • Policies

  • Cleaning schedules & audits

  • Autoclave documentation

  • Logs (vehicles, isolation, equipment)

  • Infection control protocols

  • Certificates (if claiming award points)

  • CPD records

  • Audit documents

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