With the government’s ambition to halve the number of Gram-negative bloodstream infections in the NHS by 2020, a washroom specialist explores what these plans look like ‘for those at the coalface’, and why ‘there has never been a better time to invest in infection control’.
With Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, having announced in November 2016 the government’s ambition to halve the number of Gram-negative bloodstream infections in the NHS by 2020, and offering financial incentives for those hospitals that reduce infection rates, Eoin McQuone, Commercial Business director at washroom specialist, Rada, explores what these plans look like ‘for those at the coalface’, and why there has never been a better time to invest in infection control.
Anyone listening to Jeremy Hunt’s speech at the infection control summit hosted by the Royal College of Nursing in November 2016 will have been left under no illusion that infection control is firmly on the political agenda. With a commitment to halve the number of Gram-negative bloodstream infections by 2020, the Department of Health (DH), in tandem with NHS England and NHS Improvement, is taking decisive action to reduce the number of patient deaths from preventable infections.
When talking through the plans, Mr Hunt commented that the measures were intended to achieve a ‘dramatic reduction in hospital infections, reducing enormous human pain and suffering in the process’, and that they would ‘save doctors and nurses time, and save the NHS money’.
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