In practice this means that care homes are implementing a range of IPC measures including:Appropriate placement of residents;Safe management, including decontamination, of resident care equipment and the wider care environment;Appropriate use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), andRestrictions on all but essential visits. In addition to guidance documents, a new poster has been produced, ‘COVID-19: Safe Practice in Care Homes’, which is intended as an IPC guidance aide memoire on the prevention of COVID-19 transmission for care home workers and is an abbreviated version of the comprehensive existing IPC guidance to support frontline health and social care staff undertake safe, effective IPC practice.