Clause 13 - Code of practice relating to health care associated infections
Health Bill
2:15 pm
Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire, Conservative)
It is not a case of judgment. I have just been going through the draft code. Speaking as an ex-nurse who trained many years ago, I know that many things that are listed in the code have been done for many years: infection control structure, done in the early 1980s; isolation of patients, done in the 1970s; safe disposal of sharps, done; occupational health teams, done in the 1970s; specific roles for cleaning teams, done; infection control programme, done; liaison between bed managers and infection control teams, done. Those things have all been done since the early 1980s, yet they are in the code of practice. It has no teeth.