Supporting safer visiting in care homes during infectious illness outbreaks
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Principles to support decision making for those involved in safely planning and protecting visiting during outbreaks of infectious illness in adult social care.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Principles to support decision making for those involved in safely planning and protecting visiting during outbreaks of infectious illness in adult social care. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Introduction
- Aim of this guidance
- Who these principles are for
- Legal and regulatory context
- Principles for advice on visiting during an outbreak of infectious illness in a care home
- All visits into and out of the care home
- Visits into the care home
- Visits out of the care home (by residents)
- Contact
Source and licence
UK Health Security Agency
AttributionUK Health Security Agency, ‘Supporting safer visiting in care homes during infectious illness outbreaks’ (updated 15 April 2024), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026