Reducing infection, delivering clean and safe care. Brought in by the

department of health to improve practice and care in a number of clinical

situations and to reduce infection. It adopts a care bundle approach with

a number of elements in a High Impact Intervention, for example in

peripheral cannula care and urinary catheters. The high impact

interventions use up to date evidence based guidelines that can be

audited using specific audit tools to measure compliance.

Compliance rates can be set alongside infection rates. As compliance

improves, infections should reduce. This can provide meaningful feed

back to clinical areas and is a measure of the quality of care our

patients receive. Compliance rates on their own are useful for clinical

staff to see how well their care is being delivered.