Integrating infection prevention into health care delivery. (360G-Wellcome-087732_Z_08_Z)

Health : This application is focused on applied research in infection to prevent healthcare associated infection in the NHS, improve clinical outcomes and patient safety. This is addressed through a comprehensive programme of four workstreams that work from an organisational level and the adoption of innovation through to prevent infection through applied molecular epidemiology and pathogenesis to development and application of epidemiological data and tools in the context of multi-disciplinary capacity planning and training. Wealth: The innovations developed are all directed at reducing health care acquired infections which are a major cost to the NHS. There are potential major cost savings and reduction of bed days per patient. Better use of existing data sources will identify information required to produce financial savings without the need for new data collection programmes. There is scope for wealth generation if new diagnostic tests are generated or targets for vaccines or therapies identified.