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Coronavirus has been a stark reminder of how easily infections can spread and that years old methods of prevention control are still the best, say city experts in infection control.

The Leeds Community Health Care NHS Trust has a dedicated Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) team, which, for years has been working to reduce the number of healthcare associated infections (HCAIs) and the prevention of avoidable infections both in the community and in the trust's own buildings.

The nature of its work, usually planning infection control in settings such as community nursing, childrens services and specialist services such as dental, podiatry and MSK, changed in February as coronavirus began to spread around the world.

While a lot of the team's previous work centred around educating people about hygiene practices that have been tried and tested for years, it added people had "become complacent" and for the last few months the focus of the team has been to remind people of the priorities around embedding effective hand hygiene as well as providing equipment and providing a reactive service to the staff in LCH,

Public had become "complacent" about basic hygiene prior to coronavirus lockdown says city's infection control experts