Department of Health Red Tape challenge: Business Champions

Minister of State for Health, Simon Burns MP, has asked IHAS to pull together suggestions from the Independent acute healthcare sector for the reduction of Red Tape.  He has chosen IHAS because its Membership extends so widely across the independent healthcare sector.

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HPA publishes latest Independent Sector infection rates for MRSA, CDI and MSSA

This is the fourth publication of surveillance data on meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia and Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) from Independent Sector (IS) healthcare organisations. This publication also includes the first data on meticillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bacteraemia, collection of which began in January 2011.

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