IPC Bundles - July 2025

Thank you to those who were able to join us for the July IPC Journal Club this week.  A big thankyou also to Lindy for her presentation of the journal article "Prevention of Healthcare‑Associated Infections in Low‑ and Middle‑Income Countries: The ‘Bundle Approach’" and helping us to think through how this approach can be useful in strengthening IPC in our health services.  

To help you with thinking about how you can use this type of IPC bundle approach in your health service, here are some helpful resources:

• International Society for Infectious Diseases. Guide to Infection Control in the Hospital, Chapter 16: Bundles in Infection and Prevention and Safety  https://isid.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ISID_InfectionGuide_Chapter16.pdf / https://isid.org/guide/infectionprevention/bundles/
• Health Protection Surveillance Centre.  Care Bundles  https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/microbiologyantimicrobialresistance/carebundles/.  This sites outlines care bundles for Antibiotic Care, Urinary Catheter Care, Central Vascular Catheter Care and Peripheral Venous Catheter Care.
• WHO. Prevention of hospital-acquired infections: A Practical Guide  https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/67350/WHO_CDS_CSR_EPH_2002.12.pdf
• Care Bundles: Checklist in Prevention of Infection and Safety  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368667034_Care_Bundles_Checklist_in_Prevention_of_Infection_and_Safety

These IPC Bundle presentations and infographics can be useful for creating your presentations or education on this topic: 

• Infection Prevention and You.  IPC infographics/posters. https://infectionpreventionandyou.org/all-infographics/, including Central line-associated Bloodstream Infection Prevention Bundle  
• Care Bundles in Infection Control slides which outline different IPC care bundles  https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/care-bundle-in-infection-control-ipc-bunddles/279570963#6 /  https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/infection-control-bundles/138919232#14
• Infection Control Bundles slides which outline IPC bundles  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390525143_Infection_control_bundles

Other IPC resources 

• WHO Infection Prevention and Control page.  https://www.who.int/teams/integrated-health-services/infection-prevention-control, including various IPC posters available at https://www.who.int/teams/integrated-health-services/infection-prevention-control/hand-hygiene/implementation-tools
• Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.  Infection prevention and control workbook  https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/publications-and-resources/resource-library/infection-prevention-and-control-workbook-2024
• SBC Children, Families and Community Health.  Infection Prevention and Control Induction Workbook  https://proceduresonline.com/trixcms1/media/9032/induction-workbook-ipc18-v3.pdf
• Asia Pacific Society of Infection Control. A Handbook of Infection Control for the Asian Healthcare Worker https://apsic-apac.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/A-Handbook-of-Infection-Control-for-the-Asian-Healthcare-Worker.pdf