MRSA Action UK are available to work with teams from Primary Care Trusts, NHS Hospital Trusts and other health education providers, lending opportunities to discuss effective engagement with patients and carers. We are able to present the patient and carer perspective, discuss care bundles, multi-agency working and patient empowerment. MRSA Action UK's sessions demonstrate how communication is key in working to reduce infections and save lives, and how care pathways can be used as an effective tool in communicating information that is required for patients' safety and ongoing care. The sessions feature good practice and communication tools such as the Lincolnshire Care Pathways Partnership Integrated Care Pathway, and pictorial guide for patients. A tool for patients or residents who transfer between healthcare providers to pass on important information about their infection status and can be downloaded here . To see how your organisation is performing see the monthly Health Protection Agency statistics here. For more information about how we can help please contact us at info@mrsaactionuk.net
These are just some of the events coming up, we work with healthcare professionals and other agencies giving a patient voice to help deliver clean safe care, visit our record of events page and our policy pages for more information.
MRSA Action UK Memorial Event
Westminster Abbey
8th July 2010
As always our Memorial Event was a very moving occasion and the help and support of everyone made it a very special day to remember, it was a privilege to be able to meet friends, members and colleagues from around the UK
and the USA. Click here to read more.....
World MRSA Day October 2, 2010
Kick-off Event - Oct. 1st at Loyola University Chicago, Illinois -
10:00am - Press Conference, 10:30am - Main Event
Here in the UK Kings College Hospital are holding an awareness day and have invited
MRSA Action UK to participate following on from the Infection Control Study Day held in April. Every day is infection awareness day, but October 2 has been chosen to think about MRSA as this was the day it was discovered by Professor Patricia Jevons under a mircroscope at Colindale Laboratories, London in 1961.
Infection Matters 2010 Symposium
Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Friday 26th November 2010
Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust's annual symposium targeted at infection prevention has attracted some very influential national speakers. This year Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust hope to raise the profile to a regional audience and MRSA Action UK has been invited to present the patient and relative perspective and the work of the organisation.
Derek Butler will present "A Healthcare Infection - A Lifetime Legacy" which touches on how avoidable infections such as MRSA ripple through families and friends of those affected, and affect staff too. Other speakers include Gavin Barlow, Consultant Physician & Hon. Clinical Senior Lecturer, at Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
MRSA Action UK has joined JustGiving
If you think you can help then please get in touch to talk about getting involved, you may like to help with fundraising and raising awareness. You can do this by donating through Just Giving securely or by creating your own fundraising page or a page in memory of someone.
Just ten pounds could help to support people affected by MRSA or other infections by helping with advice and understanding from others who have been affected. It could also help to provide patient information leaflets, posters to raise awareness on how to prevent infections, leaflets and training materials for seminars, workshops and education events.
Our thanks go to Alison Scott for choosing our Charity and JustGiving to remember her Aunt Alice and to Carl Millington for running the London Marathon on behalf of
MRSA Action UK.
If you or someone you care about has been affected by a healthcare infection and you wish to discuss this with us, please contact us at info@mrsaactionuk.net
