Our unannounced hospital hygiene inspections are continuing during 2017.
Sean Egan, our Head of Healthcare Regulation says: “Our Healthcare team has revised how it monitors compliance against National Standards for the prevention and control and healthcare-associated infections and has published updated guidance for our inspections in this area.
“Unannounced inspections under this revised monitoring programme began in May 2017.”
In the area of decontamination of reusable invasive medical devices, an external advisory group has been convened to assist us with the design of monitoring in this area against the National Standards for the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections in acute healthcare services.
The team are due to commence inspections in this area in early 2018.