Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use: Siena 2012

Abstract

The year 2011 saw the introduction of two major new national mandatory bacteraemia reporting schemes, for E. coli and MSSA as recommended by the Government’s Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare-Associated Infection. A continued coordinated approach across the Health Protection Agency and wider NHS is essential to understanding the epidemiology of HCAI and AMR.