The context: national infection control initiatives in England before and during Matching Michigan
| 2001 | Mandatory reporting to the Health Protection Agency (HPA) of MRSA bacteraemia. |
| //www.hpa.org.uk/web/HPAweb&HPAwebStandard/HPAweb_C/1244763936373 | |
| 2003 | Report of the Chief Medical Officer: Winning ways: guidance to reduce healthcare associated infection in England. |
| //www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4064682 | |
| 2004 | Mandatory reporting of Clostridium difficile infection (HPA website) |
| 2004 | Hospital in Europe Link for Infection Control through Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections in ICUs protocol. |
| http://helics.univ-lyon1.fr/helicshome.htm | |
| 2004 to 2008 | Health Foundation's Safer Patients Initiative (24 hospitals): includes CVC bundle. http://www.health.org.uk/areas-of-work/programmes/safer-patients-initiative/ |
| 2005 | DoH Saving Lives programme—NHS High Impact Interventions (NHS-HII), modelled on Institute for Healthcare Improvement bundles. |
| http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120118164404/hcai.dh.gov.uk/whatdoido/high-impact-interventions/ | |
| 2006 | Health Act 2006: Department of Health Code of Practice gives new powers of inspection to the Healthcare Commission. Superseded by the Health & Social Care Act 2008 |
| 2008 | Health and Social Care Act 2008: required registration with the Care Quality Commission: duty to protect patients against HCAIs. New code of practice. |
| http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_081927 | |
| 2008 | Patient Safety First sponsored by National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), NHS HII, and Health Foundation, includes interventions to reduce CVC-BSIs |
| http://www.patientsafetyfirst.nhs.uk/content.aspx?path=/ | |
| 2008 | High Quality Care For All: NHS Next Stage Review (Darzi report) states that the NPSA will run an ‘initiative to tackle central line catheter-related bloodstream infections’. |
| http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_085825 | |
| 04/2009 to 03/2011 | Matching Michigan project. http://www.patientsafetyfirst.nhs.uk/Content.aspx?path=/interventions/relatedprogrammes/matchingmichigan/ |
| 2011 | Mandatory reporting of MRSA and Escherichia coli bacteraemia (HPA website) |
BSI, blood stream infections; CVC, central venous catheter; HPA, Health Protection Agency; ICU, intensive care unit; MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.