Infection control for care homes is the set of measures, hand hygiene, environmental cleaning, air and water management and outbreak procedures, that prevents and limits the spread of infection among vulnerable residents. The strongest approach closes the gaps the default hand gel leaves, removes the ingestion hazard around residents, protects carers, and supports the CQC duty.
Care homes carry the heaviest infection-outbreak burden in the country, and the product on most walls is ineffective against the dominant threat, hazardous around the residents, and hard on the carers.
Care homes account for around 74% of all reported acute respiratory infection outbreaks in England, and norovirus, the dominant winter threat, ran at more than twice its five-season average in 2024 and 2025. Alcohol hand gel does not kill norovirus: the official advice is soap and water. The everyday tool does not cover the everyday threat.
It is also a safety hazard around the people you care for. Coroners' reports record a death from unintentional sanitiser ingestion in a resident living with dementia, and UK sanitiser poisonings rose 157% over a single year. For homes supporting dementia, learning-disability and mental-health residents, an ingestible alcohol product on an open wall is a risk you carry.
And it wears your carers down. Occupational hand dermatitis affects between a fifth and a half of care and health workers, rising sharply above ten to twenty hand-hygiene episodes a day, which is routine for a carer. Sore, cracked skin drives non-compliance and creates a COSHH and RIDDOR liability. Beyond the hands, the home's air, surfaces and water systems carry their own infection routes, all of which sit under CQC Regulation 12, which inspectors now assess as a standalone area.
You get infection control that covers what gel misses, an alcohol-free formulation safe around vulnerable residents, a product gentle enough for the way carers actually work, and control of the wider environment the infection moves through.
The hand hygiene is independently tested to and passes the recognised European hygiene standards, including the virucidal and sporicidal standards for norovirus and C. difficile, the pathogens that drive outbreaks in care and that alcohol gel does not touch. So it closes the spectrum gap rather than leaving it open. Because there is no alcohol, there is no ingestion-toxicity pathway around residents living with dementia or learning disability, and it is non-flammable. It is gentle enough for the carer doing hand hygiene dozens of times a day, which supports compliance and eases the dermatitis exposure you manage under COSHH.
It complements soap and water for visibly soiled hands and during diarrhoea and vomiting outbreaks, exactly as SICPs require, so it strengthens your IPC position for inspection rather than complicating it. Alongside the hands, we bring the same outcome-led approach to the air residents breathe, the surfaces they touch and the water systems that can harbour pathogens such as legionella, so infection control is handled across the whole environment rather than at the dispenser alone.
Broad-spectrum protection, independently tested to and passing the virucidal and sporicidal standards for norovirus and C. difficile, the pathogens that drive care-home outbreaks and that alcohol gel cannot touch.
Alcohol-free, so it removes the documented fatal-ingestion and poisoning risk that alcohol gel carries around residents living with dementia, learning disability or mental ill health.
Gentle enough for hand hygiene done dozens of times a day, supporting compliance and easing the occupational dermatitis that drives sickness absence and RIDDOR exposure.
Bring the same outcome-led approach to the air, surfaces and water systems that carry infection across the home, including waterborne pathogens such as legionella, so control reaches beyond the dispenser.
Keeps safe, effective infection control available across the home, supporting the Regulation 12 IPC duty CQC now assesses as a standalone area, with evidence for your file.
A single, standardised infection-control approach you can roll out across sites, auditable for your quality and compliance team and simple to manage.
The burden and the hazard are documented. The hand hygiene is independently tested and proven to standard.
The UK environmental and safety duties that commonly reach infection control for care homes. Open any one for what it requires, the deadlines, what is at stake, and how to evidence control. Every entry is sourced.
Is it easy for my staff to use, is it safe around my residents, and is it proven and compliant for inspection? Three fair questions, with straight answers.
The hand hygiene is independently tested to and passes the recognised European standards, including the virucidal and sporicidal standards for norovirus and C. difficile, so it covers the gap gel leaves. It is alcohol-free, so it removes the ingestion hazard around vulnerable residents, and it is gentle enough for the way carers actually work. It complements soap and water during diarrhoea and vomiting outbreaks exactly as SICPs require, and it sits alongside control of the air and water that carry infection across the home. We start with a trial in one home and prove the fit in your own environment.
It is the set of measures that prevents and limits the spread of infection among vulnerable residents: hand hygiene, environmental cleaning, management of air and water systems, PPE, and outbreak procedures. The goal is to protect residents and staff and to meet the CQC Regulation 12 duty inspectors now assess as a standalone area.
Infection prevention and control sits under CQC Regulation 12, which inspectors now assess as a standalone area covering hand hygiene, PPE, cleaning, staffing, policies and the premises. Providers need safe, effective measures in place across the home and evidence for the file. Our approach keeps that hand hygiene available and auditable.
Care homes carry around 74% of reported acute respiratory infection outbreaks in England, and norovirus ran at more than twice its five-season average in 2024 and 2025. The starting point is hand hygiene that actually covers these threats: alcohol gel does not kill norovirus, so the official advice is soap and water, complemented by hand hygiene tested to the virucidal and sporicidal standards.
It is designed for exactly this setting. Being alcohol-free, it removes the ingestion-toxicity hazard that alcohol gel carries around residents who may swallow it, including those living with dementia or learning disability, and it is non-flammable. It is also gentle enough for the very high-frequency hand hygiene carers perform every day.
The home's water systems can harbour pathogens such as legionella, which is a recognised infection-control duty alongside hand hygiene. We bring the same outcome-led approach to the water systems, and to the air and surfaces, so infection control reaches across the whole environment rather than stopping at the dispenser.
It does not kill norovirus, the dominant winter outbreak threat, so the official advice is soap and water. It is also a documented ingestion hazard around residents living with dementia or learning disability, and frequent use drives the carer hand dermatitis that erodes compliance and creates COSHH and RIDDOR exposure.
Yes. The hand hygiene is independently tested to and passes the recognised European hygiene standards, including the virucidal and sporicidal standards for norovirus and C. difficile. The problem figures, the outbreak burden, the ingestion hazard and the dermatitis rates, come from UK public-health and clinical sources, not from us.
Tell us where infection control is causing you a safety, compliance or skin-health problem. We will set up a trial in one home and prove the fit in your own environment, in confidence, before you commit.
Tell us the cost, the risk or the obligation you are facing. A senior member of our team will respond, in confidence, with how we would help.
