Issue - meetings

James Nash, Director of Infection Prevention and Control, East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust, Mark Devlin, Chief Executive and Iris Smith, Director of Infection Control, Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust and Helen Goodwin, Head of Governance and Risk with Kath Hughes, Modern Matron for Infection Control, Medway NHS Trust will be in attendance for this item.

(Rose Gibb, Chief Executive, Amy Page, Service Improvement Director, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells PCT, James Nash, Director of Infection Prevention and Control, East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust, Mark Devlin, Chief Executive and Iris Smith, Director of Infection Control, Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust and Helen Goodwin, Head of Governance and Risk with Kath Hughes, Modern Matron for Infection Control, Medway NHS Trust were in attendance for this item)

(1)       The Committee received presentations from each of the Acute Hospital Trusts across Kent and Medway regarding the processes and procedures that they had put in place concerning infection control and the incidence of hospital-acquired infection within each Trust (attached as Appendix 4).  Members’ questions were answered by PCT colleagues.

(2)       In response to a question from a Member, Ms Hughes undertook to provide Members with data showing the numbers of patients that had contracted Clostridium difficile and MRSA, expressed as a proportion of the total number of patients treated.

(3)       RESOLVED that health colleagues be thanked for their informative presentations.