GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

The activities will focus on capacity building, by providing training and implementation of enhanced infection prevention and control (IPC) practices and antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) in hospitals and in long-term care facilities and support for further dissemination, as well as AMS in primary care.

They shall include training as well as other activities to support good practice in IPC, and AMS including clinical audit and feedback, action by regulators (e.g. incentive schemes, sanction schemes), pilots to showcase state-of-the-art IPC and AMS schemes in hospitals and long term facilities that can be replicated elsewhere using for instance the Cohesion Policy funds in the future (e.g. for investments into healthcare infrastructure).

The action supports the policy priority to prevent and control the rise or return of highly infectious diseases. It implements the EU4Health Programme’s general objective of protecting people in the Union from serious cross-border threats to health and strengthening the responsiveness of health systems and coordination among the Member States in order to cope with serious cross-border threats to health (Article 3, point (b) through the specific objectives defined in Article 4, points (a), (b) and (i) of Regulation (EU) 2021/522.

EXPECTED RESULTS AND IMPACT The support of capacity building is expected to enhance primary and secondary healthcare services. An improved effectiveness of healthcare systems to prevent infection is likely to result in reductions in healthcare associated infections and improvements in patient safety in relation to AMR in the participating hospitals and long-term care facilities.