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Healthcare associated infection publications
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Last modified date:22 August 2008
Documents relating to healthcare associated infections for health professionals.
Strategy publications
Recent documents that set out how healthcare associated infections are being tackled.
- The Health Act 2006: Code of practice for the prevention and control of healthcare associated infections
- A matron's charter: An action plan for cleaner hospitals
- Towards cleaner hospitals and lower rates of infection: A summary of action
- Winning ways: working together to reduce healthcare associated infection in England
- Getting ahead of the curve: a strategy for combating infectious diseases (including other aspects of health protection)
Other reports and guidance
Guidelines, standards and reports on monitoring infection control.
- Guidance on the diagnosis and management of PVL-associated Staphylococcus aureus infections (PVL-SA) in England:
- Clean, safe care: reducing infections and saving lives
- Hospital organisation, specialty mix and MRSA
- Uniforms and workwear: an evidence base for developing local policy
- The infection control IT implementation and evaluation project
- Mandatory surveillance of surgical site infection in orthopaedic surgery: Report of data collected between April 2004 and March 2005
- Endoscope Task Force Report (October 2005)
- Revised guidance on contracting for cleaning
- Clean hospitals
- MRSA surveillance system: Results
- The National Clostridium difficile Standards Group: Report to the Department of Health
- The epic project: developing national evidence-based guidelines for preventing healthcare association infections phase 1: guidelines for preventing hospital-acquired infections
- The socio-economic burden of hospital acquired infection
Correspondence on managing infection controls
- PL CMO (2007)4: Changes to the mandatory healthcare associated infection surveillance system for Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea from April 2007
- Letter (7 December 2006): Healthcare associated infections, in particular infection caused by Clostridium difficile
- HSC 2001/005: Governance in the new NHS: controls assurance statements 2000/2001 and establishment of the controls assurance unit
- HSC 2000/002: The management and control of hospital infection: action for the NHS for the management and control of infection in hospitals in England
- HSC 1999/123: Governance in the new NHS controls assurance statements 1999/2000 risk management and organisational controls
- HSC 1999/065: Clinical governance in the new NHS
Additional links
MRSA on NHS Direct Online
The MRSA entry in NHS Direct Online's health encyclopaedia.
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