Collection: Refresh your infection prevention and control training
Planning your next IPC training session?
For training leads reviewing infection prevention and control learning, start with the national guidance, then choose resources that get your team talking.
NHS England’s Education Framework for the Infection Prevention and Control Practitioner (IPC) Workforce sets out outcomes for developing a skilled workforce, including confidence and leadership skills to support safe standards of care. Consult NHS England’s National Infection Prevention and Control Manual for national practice guidance.
Bring discussion into your training
Explore the Focus Games Infection Prevention collection to find resources for your next team learning session. Choose activities to complement your training objectives, current guidance and local policies.
Explore the Infection Prevention collection
Featured resource: Antimicrobial Stewardship Game
A game-based training tool for groups of healthcare professionals, encouraging discussion about antimicrobial stewardship and ways to help reduce antimicrobial resistance. Topics include appropriate use of antimicrobial agents, infection prevention and control, and stewardship and surveillance.
Designed for 4–14 players, with a typical session lasting 45–60 minutes.
Discover the Antimicrobial Stewardship Game
Complement your programme with leadership practice
Looking beyond IPC knowledge to the leadership behaviours your learners need in practice? Leadership Team Roulette uses realistic healthcare scenarios and rotating leadership roles to help nursing students and newly qualified nurses practise prioritisation, delegation, communication, clinical decision-making and accountability.
Teams develop a plan of care, explain their rationale and reflect through facilitator-led discussion. Consider it as a complementary activity for nursing education or preceptorship, rather than an IPC-specific training resource or a substitute for guidance.
Explore Leadership Team Roulette
Many Focus Games resources are developed in collaboration with NHS organisations. These collaborations are distinct from NHS England endorsement of this campaign. Our resources complement, rather than replace, national guidance and local policies.