Bid to cut infection risk in hospitals by increasing number of national standards

The State’s health services watchdog wants to increase, from 12 to 31, the number of national standards for the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections in acute public hospitals.

The Health Information and Quality Authority yesterday published the draft standards, a revision of the 2009 national standards.

Hiqa’s director of standards and quality improvement, Marie Kehoe-O’Sullivan urged patients, their families, service providers, and the public to become involved in developing new standards.