Combatting a problem that has not gone away – September 2014

Following a Freedom of Information request to all NHS Acute Trusts in England, in September 2014 the MTG published a report: Infection Prevention and Control – Combatting a problem that has not gone away that revealed that the majority of Trusts were unaware of the full scale or the operational and financial impact of five common infections: sepsis; catheter-associated urinary tract infections; catheter-related blood infections; ventilator-associated pneumonia; and norovirus. The MTG called on the Government to develop a strategy for using technology for infection prevention and control.

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