 The course looks at antibiotic-resistant diseases |
Health workers are being offered a university course on how to tackle the MRSA superbug and control infections. Staff at hospitals across Kent are being encouraged to enrol on the course at Medway's University of Greenwich.
Senior lecturer Julie Bowden, who has developed the part-time course, is promising "benefits to patients and a contribution to public health".
Health workers say the course is a chance to receive sound education and to gain appropriate academic credits.
The course has been developed by the university and NHS infection control specialists.
A spokesman said it focused on infections that patients could pick up at home and in doctors' surgeries as well as in hospital.
Nurses on the course will learn how to teach patients to care for wounds at home, and keep the wounds free from infection.
Debbie Flaxman, a nurse specialist in infection control at Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust, who helped to develop the course, said infection control was "quite rightly one of the highest national priorities for healthcare".
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