Organisations
Guidance & Pathways
National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE)
- All NICE guidance on healthcare-associated infections – includes links to pathways, technology appraisals, evidence summaries
Other UK Guidance
- Healthcare associated infections. NHS Improvement, 2017
- Links to UK and Ireland guidance via the Infection Prevention Society
Commissioning
Commissioning resources from the Infection Prevention Society and Royal College of Nursing
Reducing HCAI- What the Commissioner needs to know. NHS England, 2015
Incidence, prevalence, statistics
Healthcare associated infections (HCAI): guidance, data and analysis. Public Health England
The Management and Control of Hospital Acquired Infection in Acute NHS Trusts in England. National Audit Office
UK hospital infection rates. UKTreatment
MRSA and Clostridium Difficile trends. MRSA Action UK
HAI data and statistics. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The burden of health care-associated infection worldwide. WHO
Evidence Summaries
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
- Chlorhexidine bathing of the critically ill for the prevention of hospital-acquired infection
- Decontamination of environmental surfaces in hospitals to reduce hospital acquired infections
- Gloves, gowns and masks for reducing the transmission of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the hospital setting
