ABSTRACT
Historically, the importance of appropriate Infection Prevention and Control (IP&C) education and training as a means of facilitating safe practice has been well documented. Subsequently, in 2009 an electronic Infection Control and Prevention Learning Experience went live for pre-registration health and social care students. Ethical approval was sought and obtained through the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing Ethics Committee at Canterbury Christ Church University, and students were recruited on a volunteer basis through posters and electronic media. Based upon available information for 2014, Canterbury Christ Church University is a leading centre of professional education with regard to offering their health and social care students with such an extensive learning opportunity around IP&C. Further, as a part of the same research, 20 centres of nurse education were contacted with regard to their policy on hand hygiene education, to which there were three overriding responses.
