Information leaflets

A range of information leaflets are available to download, with alternative language versions where available. These can be printed out for:

• patients
• clients
• staff
• personal use

Leaflets by topic

View, download and print our information leaflets by topic.

• Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI)

  • Information for the public

• Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE)

  • Advice leaflet for individuals receiving care at home or in the community who have an infection with, or are colonised by CPE
  • Advice leaflet for contacts of a CPE carrier
  • Advice leaflet for the family of a person who is a carrier of CPE
  • Patient screening for CPE - leaflets for healthcare workers and patients

• Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI)

  • Information for hospital patients and visitors
  • Information for clients and visitors of care homes
  • Guidance for obtaining faecal specimens from patients with diarrhoea

• Escherichia coli and other STEC infections

  • Public information leaflet

• Hepatitis E

  • Hepatitis E information leaflet

• Group A streptococcal infection

  • Information for patients
  • Information for healthcare workers

• Neonatal Care Units

  • Information for parents or guardians

• Norovirus

  • Information for patients and their relatives and carers
  • What should you do during norovirus season - advice for medical and healthcare students

• Pneumocystis pneumonia (PcP)

  • Patient information

• Staphylococcus aureas

  • MRSA Screening - Information for patients

• Surgical site infection (SSI)

  • Monitoring surgical wounds for infection: Information for the patients

• Tetanus

  • Advice to injecting drug users on tetanus

• Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE)

  • Information for healthcare workers
  • Information for patients

• Washing clothes at home

  • Information for people in hospitals or care homes and their relatives

• Zoonoses

  • Advice for pregnant women to avoid animals that are giving birth