Table 2 History of infection control efforts relevant to central venous catheters
From: Explaining Matching Michigan: an ethnographic study of a patient safety program
2001 | Mandatory reporting to the Health Protection Agency (HPA) of MRSA bacteraemia. |
2003 | Report of the Chief Medical Officer: Winning ways: guidance to reduce healthcare associated infection in England. |
2004 | Mandatory reporting of Clostridium difficile infection (HPA website) 2004 Hospital in Europe Link for Infection Control through Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections in ICUs protocol. http://helics.univ-lyon1.fr/helicshome.htm |
2005 | DoH Saving Lives program—NHS High Impact Interventions (NHS-HII), modelled on Institute for Healthcare Improvement bundles. |
2006 | Health Act 2006: Department of Health Code of Practice gives new powers of inspection to the Healthcare Commission. Superseded by the Health & Social Care Act 2008 |
2008 | 2008 Health and Social Care Act 2008: required registration with the Care Quality Commission: duty to protect patients against HCAIs. New code of practice. |
2008 | Patient Safety First sponsored by National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), NHS HII, and Health Foundation, includes interventions to reduce CVC-BSIs http://www.patientsafetyfirst.nhs.uk/content.aspx?path |
2009 | Some NHS trusts participated in CQUIN (Commissioning for Quality and Innovation) schemes that made a percentage of their incomes dependent on demonstrating compliance |
2011 | Mandatory reporting of MRSA and Escherichia coli bacteraemia. |