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The Infection Control Nurses Associations and the Hospital Infection Society response to the National Audit Office report on Hospital Acquired Infection
The Infection Control Nurses Association (ICNA) and the Hospital Infection Society (HIS) welcomes the release of the National Audit Office (NAO) report and the recommendations made
The NAO�s findings on the continued lack of appropriate monitoring of infections highlights one of the fundamental errors in the latest government initiative to address hospital infections announced by John Reid on Sunday and further strengthens the ICNA�s request for access to greater resources and the empowerment of Infection Control professionals.
Current methods of monitoring the MRSA bacteria 'Superbug' methods are inadequate and potentially inaccurate as they provide information on those infections found in the blood only and exclude all other categories; neither does the current system identify areas of the hospital with the highest rates of infection, vital information for Infection Prevention and Control Professionals in their fight against resistant bacteria.
In a recent survey of key ICNA members, experts in their field, the need for accurate surveillance of all infections, not just MRSA, was considered to be one of the most important areas to be addressed if we are to win the fight against healthcare associated infection.
The ICNA with support from HIS will be launching a series of campaigns lobbying the Government for the introduction of a universal infection surveillance system fully resourced at a clinical level and open to public scrutiny. Once again we call upon John Reid to listen to the needs of Infection Control Professionals who are the frontline staff in this war on infections.
Christine Perry
Chair Person
Infection Control Nurses Association
Dr Robert C Spencer
Chair Person
Hospital Infection Society HIS web site |
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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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