Infection Prevention Update - The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals ...

Percentage
Title: Infection Prevention and Control
NHSLA requires that hand hygiene training compliance is at least 95% to match level 3
requirements. The first graph shows that several staff groups have to improve their
training compliance levels to achieve this. Overall compliance was 92.5% at the end of
March, which is the lowest since July 2012 and a marked deterioration from the 95.6%
achieved in October 2012. Once again, the groups that are potentially the most
concerning are ‘Medical and Dental’ and both of the ‘Nursing and Midwifery’ groups; it is
important the compliance of these groups improves and this improvement is maintained.
The second graph, however, shows how the compliance at the end of 2012-13 was higher
than has been achieved in any previous years.
Antimicrobial Prescriber Training
Uptake of Antimicrobial Prescriber Training
100
90
80
70
60
30.05.07
31.03.08
31.03.09
50
40
30
20
31.03.10
31.03.11
31.03.12
31.03.13
10
0
Division 1 Division 2 Total
NHSLA requires that antimicrobial prescriber training compliance is at least 95% to match
level 3 requirements. While the current compliance level is higher than at the end of
either of the previous two years, it is still below the 95% target. The Antimicrobial
Stewardship Group is exploring different methods of delivering training and assessing
competence. Training and compliance with training was a key element of the
Antimicrobial CQUIN that the Trust was set this year. The Trust achieved all of the CQIN
objectives.
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