U.K. hospital adopts new infection control guide

Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth adopts National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) quality standards


Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth, U.K., adopted the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's (NICE) quality standards for infection control, according to an article on the Portsmouth News website.

Rates of MRSA and clostridium difficile (C.diff) have fallen since the hospital adopted the NICE standards, the article said.

According to Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust (PHT), which runs QA, there were four cases of MRSA in the last financial year, down from six cases the year before. Also, there were 30 cases of C.diff — a number that matched the hospital's prediction. The previous year’s figures were unavailable.

According to NICE, 300,000 patients develop an infection in England each year while being treated by the NHS.

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April 25, 2014


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