The 6th annual Reducing HCAIs conference and exhibition – Improving processes, improving outcomes – provided an insight into improvement initiatives aimed at reducing healthcare-associated infections.
Achieving compliance with best practice can be challenging, so how are infection prevention teams tackling some of the key issues? LOUISE FRAMPTON reports.
Held at the Brewery Conference Centre and hosted by Health and Social Care Reform and Govtoday, the Improving processes, improving outcomes event highlighted some of the key issues faced in tackling surgical site infections (SSIs) today. Speakers commented that achieving compliance with guidelines remains ‘challenging’; there continues to be wide variation between hospitals, in terms of the rates of infection; and SSIs still represent around one-fifth of all healthcare-associated infections.1
Surveillance and audit are an important part of any improvement programme and Helen O’Connor, nurse consultant, East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, provided an insight into how this gave the impetus for a number of infection prevention initiatives at the Trust, which delivered reductions in SSIs.
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