MRSA Action UK

MRSA Action UK Campaigns



  • Joint petition for legislation to bring back the NHS Uniform policy requiring staff to change out of Uniforms at the end of the shift

    Penwith Older People’s Forum and MRSA Action UK approved the proposal to create a petition to reintroduce the former NHS uniform policy in April 2008. We call on the Prime Minister to introduce legislation to make it compulsory for nurses to change out of their uniforms after working their shift, before leaving the hospital. This measure should be introduced to stop the spread of infectious and life threatening illness caused by disease such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile, and takes into account measures recently introduced to no longer require doctors to wear white coats.

    Click to sign up to the petition to bring back the NHS Uniform Policy


  • Healthcare Commission, Expert Reference Group

    MRSA Action UK are members of the Expert Reference Group that advises the Healthcare Commission on the content and methodology for assessing healthcare providers’ arrangements for the prevention and control and healthcare associated infection. The group advises on assessing arrangements for health and social care across the patients’ care pathway.
    Expert Reference Group


  • Our NHS, Our future

    MRSA Action UK are members of the National working group on Quality Improvement.
    Terms of Reference


  • Cleanyourhands Campaign, National Patient Safety Agency

    Hand Hygiene should be a process of excellence that is the cornerstone of good infection prevention and control. Aristotle once said “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

    Hand hygiene has to become habit forming, infection control has to be an all or nothing process; there can be no half-way house on this issue. It is our charity’s belief that there will have to be a fundamental shift in all aspects of healthcare, not least in the area of infection prevention and control.
    Year three launch


  • Patient Empowerment Campaign, National Patient Safety Agency

    The National Patient Safety Agency has been invited to develop and pilot an initiative to increase the involvement of patients in hand hygiene of healthcare workers as part of the cleanyourhands campaign.

    MRSA Action UK believe it must always be remembered it is the healthcare profession that is responsible for quality and safety, and that the patients’ contribution may only act as an additional buffer to the mechanisms built in to reduce risk, ‘blame’ for errors should therefore never be attributable to the patient.
    Patient Empowerment Campaign


  • Cleaner Hospitals Stakeholders, Department of Health

    MRSA Action UK are members of the Stakeholder group that meets twice yearly.
    Healthcare Associated Infection Event


  • Involving patients and public in healthcare-associated infection research

    INVOLVE Promoting public involvement in public health and healthcare research.
    For feedback on the latest training event and opportunities to involve us in your research proposals click here

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