Disease outbreak surveillance

Inquiry recommendation

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R53 - Surveillance systems fit for purpose

Vale of Leven Inquiry

Health Boards should ensure that surveillance systems are fit for purpose, are simple to use and monitor, and provide information on potential outbreaks in real time.

Matched on terms: outbreak, surveillance

Inquiry recommendation

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R16 - CDI outbreak reporting

Vale of Leven Inquiry

Health Boards should ensure that the nurse in charge of each ward reports suspected outbreaks of CDI (as defined in local guidance) to the Infection Control Team.

Matched on terms: outbreak

Inquiry recommendation

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COVID-M3.8 - Recording Healthcare Worker Deaths

COVID-19 Inquiry

The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should work with their respective public health agencies and healthcare employers to develop nation-specific mechanisms to collect, analyse and publish data systematically on the deaths of healthcare workers in the event of a pandemic outbreak. The UK Statistics Authority should work with data providers to ensure that...

Matched on terms: outbreak

Inquiry recommendation

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R54 - Surveillance system training

Vale of Leven Inquiry

Health Boards should ensure that the users of surveillance systems are properly trained in their use and fully aware of how to use and respond to the data available.

Matched on terms: surveillance

Inquiry recommendation

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COVID-M3.4 - Data Systems for High-Risk Individuals

COVID-19 Inquiry

The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive must ensure that health data and digital systems have the capability to identify individuals at high risk of morbidity or mortality from a pandemic disease quickly and accurately in a future pandemic. This should include action to improve health data systems and patient record-keeping by: improving patient...

Matched on terms: disease

Inquiry recommendation

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COVID-M3.1 - IPC Structures and Transmission Risk

COVID-19 Inquiry

The UK government must ensure that there is a body (equivalent to the UK Infection Prevention and Control Cell) in place ready to be convened at the outset of any future pandemic, to consider and draft infection prevention and control guidance for healthcare settings. This body must: have clear lines of responsibility and a clear, pre-defined role and...

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Inquiry recommendation

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R71 - National CDI death monitoring

Vale of Leven Inquiry

Scottish Government should identify a national agency to undertake routine national monitoring of deaths related to CDI.

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Inquiry recommendation

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R4 - Local HAI Task Forces

Vale of Leven Inquiry

Scottish Government should develop local healthcare Associated infection (HAI) Task Forces within each Health Board area.

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Inquiry recommendation

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F107 - Sharing concerns

Mid Staffs Inquiry

If the Health Protection Agency or its successor, or the relevant local director of public health or equivalent official, becomes concerned that a provider's management of healthcare associated infections is or may be inadequate to provide sufficient protection of patients or public safety, they should immediately inform all responsible commissioners, including the relevant regional office of the NHS...

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Inquiry recommendation

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F106 - Health Protection Agency Coordination and publication of providers' information on healthcare associated infections

Mid Staffs Inquiry

The Health Protection Agency and its successor, should coordinate the collection, analysis and publication of information on each provider's performance in relation to healthcare associated infections, working with the Health and Social Care Information Centre.

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Inquiry recommendation

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R3 - IPC policy review

Vale of Leven Inquiry

Health Boards should ensure that infection prevention and control policies are reviewed promptly in response to any new policies or guidance issued by or on behalf of the Scottish Government.

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Inquiry recommendation

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R40 - Prudent antibiotic prescribing

Vale of Leven Inquiry

Health Boards should ensure that the key principles of prudent antibiotic prescribing are adhered to and that implementation of policy is rigorously monitored by management.

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Inquiry recommendation

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R35 - Antibiotic prescribing monitoring

Vale of Leven Inquiry

Scottish Government should monitor the implementation of policies and/or guidance on antibiotic prescribing issued in connection with healthcare associated infection.

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Inquiry recommendation

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R34 - Antimicrobial guidance implementation

Vale of Leven Inquiry

Health Boards should ensure that changes in policy and/or guidance on antimicrobial practice issued by or on behalf of Scottish Government are implemented without delay.

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Inquiry recommendation

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R2 - HAI implementation strategy

Vale of Leven Inquiry

Scottish Government should ensure that policies and guidance on healthcare associated infection are accompanied by an implementation strategy and that implementation is monitored.

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Inquiry recommendation

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F108 - Support for other agencies

Mid Staffs Inquiry

Public Health England should review the support and training that health protection staff can offer to local authorities and other agencies in relation to local oversight of healthcare providers' infection control arrangements.

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Inquiry recommendation

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R55 - CDI reporting to CEO and Board

Vale of Leven Inquiry

Health Boards should ensure that numbers and rates of CDI are reported through each level of the organisation up to the Chief Executive and the Board.

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