Nearly a fifth of nurses are still not receiving formal feedback on their infection control practice, according to figures gathered by the National Audit Office.
The watchdog published a report on infection control in the NHS last week, which welcomed the NHS hitting its MRSA reduction target last year but said ‘compliance with good practice is still not universal’ across trusts.
According to a staff survey that accompanied the report, 18% of nurses had received no appraisal on their infection control practice and 16% said management provided no time, venue or resources to reflect on previous infection control incidents.
Doctors were even less likely to have infection control appraisals, with 46% reporting that they had not received one. Findings were based on a survey of 1,551 nurses and 1,050 doctors carried out between October and December 2008.
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