This session will share the England Department of Health's experience and approach to tackling Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), introducing its Saving Lives delivery program for acute settings and Essential Steps program for non-acute settings. A powerful set of tools, including a delivery toolkit for acute hospitals and non-acute settings, will be reviewed.

      After this presentation you will be able to:

• Use a powerful set of tools to implement a systematic, organization-wide change management approach to eradicate avoidable infections.
• Discuss the cultural, behavioral, and organizational issues that need to be addressed when commencing an improvement program in this area.
• Describe the web-based enhanced surveillance system being used by all hospitals in England.