Monitoring surgical wounds for infection: information for patients
Explains surgical wound infection, and the national programme for monitoring infections acquired in hospitals, in English and 8 other languages.
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This leaflet is available for healthcare professionals to download and print for patients who are included in post-discharge surveillance submitted to the UK Health Security Agency.
Translated versions of ‘Monitoring surgical wounds for infection: information for patients’ were published by Public Health England in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujarati, Polish, Punjabi and Urdu.
Last updated 22 September 2022 + show all updates
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Updated leaflets.
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Added link to surgical surveillance privacy notice page.
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Added Monitoring surgical wounds for infection: information for patients in large print.
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Updated English edition of existing leaflet.
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Added translations to existing leaflet on surgical infection.
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First published.