title: Keeping infection control in hand.
abstract: Despite huge progress in recent years, rates of healthcare-associated infections in the NHS remain ‘unacceptable and avoidable’, according to NICE. Its new quality standard addresses priority areas such as hand hygiene, antibiotics and catheters. In this article, front line nurses discuss attempts at infection prevention and control.
authors.forename: Erin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dean
mesh_terms: D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D009729:Nursing / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care