Clean your hands

Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust is committed to preventing healthcare associated infections (HCAIs), including MRSA and Clostridium difficile. Patient safety is our number one clinical priority and there is a highly active Trust-wide infection prevention and control programme aimed at reducing infections and minimising risk.

The Trust has robust protocols for tackling MRSA which are based on national guidelines for MRSA prevention and control. A crucial part of our MRSA control measures involves screening patients for MRSA. In line with recent national guidance, the Trust is now screening all elective (planned) adult admissions, all adult emergency admissions and certain categories of day-case attendees.

Compliance with our MRSA screening protocols is monitored at our weekly infection control operational meetings, supported by a detailed audit programme. Through this process we are able to offer significant assurance that compliance with our MRSA screening protocol is extremely good and continually improving..

Peter Homa, Chief Executive
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
 

Reports and policies

	Document title	Publish / Review date
	MRSA Policy	September 2010
	Care Quality Commission - The prevention and control of infections	June 2009

 
 
Update: June 2010: Weekly publication of MRSA and C difficile statistics

C diff and MRSA figures for all hospitals across the country are now being published online on a weekly basis by the Health Protection Agency.

It is part of Government plans to improve transparency and accountability in hospitals. The new weekly reporting schedule for MRSA bacteraemia and C diff includes counts of cases by hospital (and not acute/PCT-level reporting).

The weekly data for every hospital is available at www.data.gov.uk.

From early July, infection figures for every NHS hospital in England will be updated weekly online, giving statistics for each of the previous 12 weeks. The formal weekly publication scheme will start 5 July. There will still be formal monthly, quarterly and annual publication of official data.

The Health Protection Agency has provided a useful narrative on the figures - click here to read it.