The membership of the Healthcare Associated Infection Task Force is detailed in the table.Dr Mac Armstrong, Chief Medical Officer, ChairDr Frank Bone, Consultant MicrobiologistDumfries and Galloway Royal InfirmaryMr Tim Brett, General ManagerScottish Centre for Infection and Environmental HealthMr Alistair Brown, Head, Performance Management DivisionScottish Executive Health DepartmentMr James T Brown, Head, Public Health Division Scottish Executive Health DepartmentMs Susan Brimelow, ManagerIndependent Healthcare Division, Central West RegionDr Peter Christie, Senior Medical OfficerScottish Executive Health DepartmentDr Michael Cornbleet, Senior Medical OfficerScottish Executive Health DepartmentDr Brian Cowan, Medical DirectorSouth Glasgow University Hospitals NHS TrustMrs Rosslyn Crockett, Director of NursingGreater Glasgow Primary Care NHS TrustDr Andrew K Fraser, Deputy Chief Medical OfficerScottish Executive Health DepartmentMr John Gallacher, Joint SecretaryScottish Partnership ForumMrs Liz Gillies, Director of HAI InitiativeNHS Education for ScotlandMr John Glennie, Chief ExecutiveNHS BordersMr Robert Howe, Head of Environmental ServicesSouth Lanarkshire CouncilMiss Anne Jarvie, Chief Nursing OfficerScottish Executive Health DepartmentMr Adrian Lucas, Chief ExecutiveScottish Ambulance ServiceMrs Maggie McCowan, Senior Manager, Infection ControlInfection Control Nurses Association (Scotland)Mr Ian McLuckie, Chief ExecutiveThe Property and Environment Forum Mrs Hazel Meechan, National Development OfficerScottish Executive Health Department Mrs Diane Murray, Partnership and Employment PracticeScottish Executive Health DepartmentMr Mike Palmer, Assistant Director Workforce and PolicyScottish Executive Health DepartmentMr Robert B F Peat, General ManagerEastern Glasgow LHCCMr Tom ReillyLay representativeMrs Marjory RussellLay representativeDr Charles Saunders, Consultant in Public Health MedicineNHS FifeMs Lynda Sawers, Corporate Communications ManagerScottish Executive Health DepartmentMr Ross Scott, Policy Implementation and DevelopmentScottish Executive Health DepartmentDr David Steel, Chief Executive NHS Quality Improvement ScotlandMrs Margaret Tannahill, Project Leader, HAI Task ForceScottish Executive Health DepartmentMr Ray Watkins, Chief Dental OfficerScottish Executive Health DepartmentThe task force, which has met on two occasions and will meet again in the autumn, is overseeing work already in progress and commissioning several new working groups to address a number of specified tasks which are set out in the Hospital Acquired Infection Action Plan.