Infection Prevention and Control for Children and Young People
2025-26 Year of entry
Delivered by Great Ormond Street Hospital Learning Academy (GLA), this 15-credit module aims to provide professional development for multi-disciplinary healthcare staff to ensure best practice for infection prevention, and control (IPC) and apply that to the care of children and young people.
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The module content will provide the learners with specialist paediatric IPC knowledge and application to practice. This will allow practitioners to risk assess and manage patients to facilitate safe care as well as identify areas for improvement in practice related to IPC.
This module can be taken as standalone Continuing Professional Development (CPD), or as part of a Master’s of Science (MSc), Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip), Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) or Graduate Certificate (GradCert) in Paediatrics & Child Healthcare Practice. See our MSc Paediatrics & Child Healthcare Practice page for more information about these programmes.
Learners considering a programme will need to attend a pre-entry meeting with the programme leader to review the requirements and expectations of the programme. To set up a programme planning meeting, please contact the Academic Programmes Team at the GOSH Learning Academy: academic.programmes@gosh.nhs.uk.
Teaching
Active learning will allow practitioners to learn via collaboration, cooperation, and peer-based learning. Activities may include interactive lectures, clinical skills demonstration and supervised practice, small group activities, case-based discussions, workshops, and tutorials.
Synchronous and asynchronous learning and teaching activities are delivered via a combination of study days and digital strategies at local sites or online using the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).
Assessment
The formative assessment will be in the form of a peer presentation.
The summative assessment will require learners to complete a written case study.
Teaching dates
| Type | Date | Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching Day 1 | 10/09/2025 | Virtual |
| Teaching Day 2 | 17/09/2025 | Virtual |
| Teaching Day 3 | 24/09/2025 | Face-to-Face |
| Teaching Day 4 | 01/10/2025 | Virtual |
| Teaching Day 5 | 08/10/2025 | Virtual |
| Teaching Day 6 | 15/10/2025 | Virtual |
| Assessment Day 1 | 26/11/2025 | Deadline date |
Teaching will take place over a whole day. Face-to-Face teaching will take place either on or around the Great Ormond Street Hospital campus or at the Middlesex University West Stand at StoneX stadium. Exact locations for teaching days will be advised closer to the start date.
To undertake this module, you must be a healthcare professional working with paediatric patients but are not required to hold professional registration.
How to apply
Applications will close two weeks before the module start date. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that they have arranged the necessary study leave to attend the module.
Candidates whose fees are being paid by their organisation will need to obtain a letter of sponsorship from their organisation and upload this as part of the application. You will not be able to save your application form once you begin, so please have the letter of sponsorship ready. You may wish to use this template: GOSH SPONSOR LETTER PDF.
If you have any questions about the module, please contact academic.programmes@gosh.nhs.uk.
Fees and funding
The fees below refer to the 2025/26 academic year unless otherwise stated.
Part-time learners: £67 per credit*
*Course fees are subject to annual inflation so the total costs for part time study are shown here as a guide.
Learners who withdraw on or after the start date of the module will be liable for the full tuition fees.
If you have any questions about the module, please contact academic.programmes@gosh.nhs.uk.