Mrs Lyn HillTout

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Mrs Lyn Hill-Tout Chief Executive - Swindon
Marlborough NHS Trust The Great Western Hospital,
Swindon Tel [phone] Email
lyn.hill-tout_at_smnhst.swest.nhs.uk Reducing MRSA
Meeting the Target and Increasing Trust
Productivity
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The Great Western Hospital
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A Trusts Perspective

• Why should we be interested?
• What are we doing?

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Why should we be interested?
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Impact on Patient Choice
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Standards for Better Health

• C4A Healthcare organisations keep patients,
  staff and visitors safe by having systems to
  ensure that
• The risk of healthcare acquired infection to
  patients is reduced, with particular emphasis on
  high standards of hygiene and cleanliness,
  achieving year on year reductions in Methicillin
  Resistant Staphylocuccus Aureus (MRSA)

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It is a national target

• Do you know yours?
• Swindon Marlborough NHS Trust figures
• MRSA Bacteraemias

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So Healthcare Acquired Infection is an issue

• That matters to the community
• Of quality
• Of safety
• Of cost
• And for these reasons should be of prime
  importance to healthcare providers

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Swindon Marlborough NHS Trusts approach
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Leadership
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Ownership
Strategic (the Board and Clinical Executive) it
is embedded in our planning It happens on the
ground (e.g. link networkers)
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Performance

• A real action plan that is regularly updated
• We monitor what and how we are doing
• Monthly reports and best practice

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Communication and Profile
Raise awareness staff and public
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Motivation

• Strong Infection Control team and link
  networkers
• Modern Matrons
• Medical staff
• Partners Patients, Primary Care Trust, Patient
  Public Involvement Forum, Carillion

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Finally

• It is essential, not optional
• It is not easy
• It needs a multi pronged approach
• It needs leadership, ownership, motivation,
  communication and profile
• A strategic approach with a proper plan which
  supports change
• It is as important as finance and AE targets
• It needs dogged determination