In this section...

  1. Acute Physiotherapy
  2. Cheshire and Merseyside Rehabilitation Network (CMRN)
  3. Chiari malformation and syringomyella
  4. Cognitive neurology
  5. Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
  6. Dietetic Services
  7. Electroencephalogram (EEG)
  8. Endoscopic (keyhole) spinal surgery
  9. Epilepsy
  10. Epilepsy specialist nurse service
  11. Epilepsy surgery
  12. Essential tremor - Ultrasound thalamotomy
  13. Evoked potentials (EP)
  14. Facial pain
  15. Fluroscopy
  16. Functional Neurological Disorders Service (FNDS)
  17. Headache service
  18. Hydrocephalus, CSF disorders and spina bifida
  19. Infection prevention and control
  20. Integrated Neurology Nurse Service
  21. Interventional Radiology
  22. Major Trauma service
  23. Motor neurone disease
  24. Multiple sclerosis
  25. Multiple sclerosis (MS) nurse service
  26. Nerve conduction studies (NCS) and Electromyography (EMG)
  27. Neuroanaesthesia and Critical Care
  28. Neurogenetic disorders
  29. Neurological long-term conditions OT service
  30. Neurological Long Term Conditions Physiotherapy Team (LTC)
  31. Neurology
  32. Neuromodulation for Pain and Pelvic Floor Instability
  33. Neuromuscular disorders
  34. Neuromyelitis optica
  35. Neuro-Oncology Department
  36. Neuropathic pain (nerve pain)
  37. Neurophysiology Department
  38. Neuropsychiatry
  39. Neuropsychology Department
  40. Neuropsychology inpatient service
  41. Neuroradiology
  42. Neuroscience Laboratories
  43. Neurosurgery
  44. Neurovascular surgery and intervention
  45. Pain Management Programme
  46. Pain medicine
  47. Palliative care pain
  48. Parkinson's disease Nurse Specialists
  49. Pre-operative Assessment Team
  50. Physiotherapy botulinum toxin service
  51. Rehabilitation
  52. Research
  53. Respiratory Physiotherapy Team
  54. Speech and Language Therapy
  55. Spinal surgery
  56. Surgical management of chronic pain
  57. Surgical, Medical, Acute Response Team (SMART)
  58. Theatres
  59. Therapies Department
  60. Tissue viability
  61. Trauma Therapy Team

Infection prevention and control

 

The Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) team are a group of specialist nurses who provide advice and support on all matters relating to infection prevention and control. The team's aim is to minimise the risks of infection to all patients who receive care or treatment or have contact with The Walton Centre's services.

 

To ensure the possibility of infection is reduced, there are a number of methods the Trust has in place, including:

  • A clean and tidy environment
  • Making sure equipment is clean
  • Screening for MRSA and CPE
  • Education, training and information to staff, patients and visitors
  • Regular monitoring of infections and incidents
  • Monitoring standards
  • Working together with local and national organisations to make sure our services are safe
     

Our staff can also protect you by washing their hands with soap and water or by using an alcohol gel. If a member of staff needs to examine you or perform a procedure, do not be afraid to ask if they have washed their hands.

 

Visitors

 To protect vulnerable patients in our care from infection we ask that visitors 

  • Do not to come to the hospital if they have been unwell in the last 48 hours, especially with a cold, diarrhoea or vomiting. They must wait until they have been clear of symptoms for at least 48 hours before visiting.
  • Clean their hands either with soap and water or the alcohol gel provided at the ward entrances, before and after visiting.
  • Contact the person in charge before or on arrival to the ward/department if you are unsure if the person you are visiting has an infection.

 

Contact information

0151 556 3601 / wcft.infectioncontrolteam@nhs.net 
 

 

Patient leaflets

Blood Stream Infection

CPE (Carbapenemase Producing Enterobacteriaceae)

CPE (Carbapenemase Producing Enterobacteriaceae) - Contact information

ESBL - Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase Producing Bacteria

Group A streptococcal infection

Hand hygiene

Infection prevention guidance for visitors

Monitoring Surgical Wounds for Infection

Preventing catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI)