What are the Leeds Teaching Hospitals doing to prevent MRSA?
MRSA is a global problem and is a major challenge. However, it can be controlled and we are committed to doing everything we can to prevent the spread of it in our hospitals. Some of the steps we have taken include: • Employing infection prevention and control nurses to educate staff and check the levels of infection within the hospitals. • Teaching all health care workers good infection control practice from the time they start working in the hospitals. • Providing good hand hygiene facilities for staff and visitors. These include hand rubs that can kill germs (usually they are a kind of gel). • Screening all elective patients when they come into hospital for MRSA so we can identify if they are colonised with the bacteria. By identifying patients colonised with MRSA from the community we can then take steps to prevent the risk of it coming into the hospitals. Our domestic service teams also play a vital part in the control, prevention and spread of infection, through making sure the w
