Infection Prevention and Control at The Royal Wolverhampton
Hospitals NHS Trust
The prevention of infection is a high priority at the Royal
Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust. This is because it is vital to
the quality of care that patients attending the hospital
receive.
There is an Infection Prevention Team who are available to give
advice on infections and how to prevent their spread but it is all
staff members’ responsibility to ensure that infection prevention
practices are followed very carefully. Patients and visitors can
also play a part. If you are a patient or visitor please see follow
the link below to find out what you can do to help reduce
infections.
Facts and Figures
The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust participates fully in
the Department of Health’s mandatory surveillance scheme. This
means that the numbers of patients developing infection due to MRSA
in the blood and the number of patients acquiring Clostridium
difficile associated diarrhoea are reported frequently and the
Department of Health publishes these figures. The latest figures
can be accessed by the following link below:
http://www.hpa.org.uk/infections/topics_az/hai/mandatory_report_2006.htm
If you have questions about your risk of developing an infection
then please ask the health care staff looking after you or read the
section ‘How can patients and visitors help?’
General principles for infection prevention and
control
There are several actions which will help reduce infections and
should be done by staff and visitors on a regular basis some are
explained in the visitors and patients sections of this site. There
are 3 main principles though which are most important.
Clean hands – using alcohol hand gel or soap and
water.
Keep the hospital clean and tidy.
Isolation of patients with known or suspected infections wherever
possible.
Infection Prevention Annual
Reports
Click
here to download a copy of the 2006/07 Infection Prevention Annual
Report
Click here to download a copy of the 2007/08 Infection Prevention
Annual Report
Click here to download a copy of the 2008/09 Infection Prevention
Annual Report