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175732

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date	26/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hospitals: Hygiene
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of levels of hand hygiene compliance in hospital Trusts.
tabling member constituency	Amber Valley
tabling member printed	Nigel Mills
uin	221964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>Auditing of hand hygiene compliance is a local responsibility, and the Department does not collect this information centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>The Health and Social Care Act 2008 Code of Practice on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance</em> sets 10 compliance criteria to manage healthcare associated infections. This includes one covering infection prevention and control which refers to hand hygiene and recommends that providers undertake hand hygiene audits.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The hand hygiene provisions appear to be operating satisfactorily and it is therefore not proposed that provisions relating to guidance on hand hygiene are changed as part of the revisions to the Code of Practice, which is currently out for consultation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 222412 question first answered 02/02/2015 17:35:35 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4136 label Biography information for Nigel Mills

175749

registered interest
date	26/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hospitals: Infectious Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to incentivise NHS trusts to reduce levels of healthcare-associated infections.
tabling member constituency	Amber Valley
tabling member printed	Nigel Mills
uin	221942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>The NHS Standard Contract is a key enabler for commissioners to secure improvements in the quality of services for patients and to hold providers of National Health Service funded care to account.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Each provider is required to have a healthcare associated infections reduction plan for each contract year (and to comply with its obligations under that plan) that must reflect local and national priorities relating to healthcare associated infections, including antimicrobial resistance. Under the NHS Standard Contract, commissioners may impose financial sanctions where providers fail to achieve healthcare associated infections reduction targets. These are set out at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/nhs-standard-contract/" target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/nhs-standard-contract/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These robust measures have played their part in reducing annual Meticillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections by 59% and Clostridium difficile infections by 45% since May 2010.<strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 02/02/2015 17:33:48 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4136 label Biography information for Nigel Mills

175750

registered interest
date	26/01/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Hospitals: Infectious Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an estimate of the (a) average and (b) total cost to the NHS of healthcare-associated infections.
tabling member constituency	Amber Valley
tabling member printed	Nigel Mills
uin	221940
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>The most recent reliable estimate of the cost of healthcare associated infections is derived from the Plowman Report, which estimated the cost to be £1 billion per year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Although there is no systematic analysis of average costs of all healthcare associated infections, the average cost of Meticillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia is estimated to be £7,000 per case and Clostridium difficile infection is estimated to be £10,000 per case.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 02/02/2015 17:32:27 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4136 label Biography information for Nigel Mills