Ambulance trusts make infection prevention and control a top priority

Read the first edition in our new Regulating for better care series.
This series looks at high quality care and improvements in health and social care following action by CQC.

The first edition focuses on improvements made by Ambulance Trusts after infection prevention and control inspections by CQC.

As part of our unannounced infection prevention and control spot checks at over 200 NHS providers in 2009/10, we have inspected all 11 NHS ambulance trusts for the first time. Of those 11 trusts:

- four didn’t comply with the required government regulation
- six had areas for improvement.

However, Trust leaders told us that once they were aware of problems, they were very eager to change. We followed up at all 10 trusts where we had made requirements and our assessors were satisfied with improvements made.

Read the full story, including case studies on three ambulance trusts which turned their infection prevention and control around:

http://www.cqc.org.uk/newsandevents/mediacentre.cfm