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The Scottish Executive has produced a consultation document "outlining a Code of Practice for the local management of hygiene and HAI across the NHS in Scotland"
If you wish to read/comment please go to: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/views/views.asp where the document and information about responding etc. can be found
Closing date 19th December 2003
Consultation Paper - Scottish Executive |
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 Oxoid Infection Control Team of the Year Awards 2006/2007 Winners AnnouncedOxoid, a world leader in microbiology, is pleased to announce the winners of the 2006/2007 Oxoid Infection Control Team of the Year Awards:
1st Prize: Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
2nd Prize: Cho Ray Hospital, Vietnam
Joint 3rd Prize: Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK and Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Nigeria.
1st: Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
The judges were unanimous in their decision to award t... More
More action to tackle C.Difficile as MRSA numbers continue to fall The Government's Chief Nursing Officer today welcomed a further reduction in MRSA bloodstream infections and announced the latest in a raft of measures to drive down rates of C.difficile in hospitals.
Latest statistics from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) show a decrease of 6.7% in MRSA bacteraemia on the last published quarterly data, while C difficile infections for 2006 were 7.6% higher than 2005, a smaller increase than in the previou... More
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