Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 15th November 2021 to Question 66237 on Catheters: Urinary Tract Infections, whether the national manual for infection prevention will be subject to consultation.
The inaugural chapters were developed using an England-wide consensus group consisting of infection prevention and control experts. These chapters are now subject wider consultation with the consensus group and regional infection prevention leads in England.
While a specific date has not yet been confirmed, we anticipate the manual will be published in March 2022.