(c) MRSA Action UK April 2010
These are just some of our more recent events. Visit our archived pages to see TV appearances and other activities in our work with government, healthcare trusts and other agencies to raise the profile and awareness about healthcare infections and disseminate good practice. If you would like more information about any of the items here, or if there other events you would like to see included then please contact us at info@mrsaactionuk.net
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.....
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.....
Tuesday 29th June 2010
MRSA Action UK presented
A Healthcare Infection - A Lifetime Legacy at
Warrington PCT's Infection Control Study Day, more....
Prevention and control of infections in care homes conference
London, 22 June 2010
The Health & Social Care Act 2008 requires all providers of adult social care and independent healthcare to register against the same framework and focuses on cleanliness and infection prevention and control requirements. There is an urgent need to ensure that good infection control practice is consistently but proportionately applied in all sectors so that the numbers of infections can be reduced and benefit service users. Improving the prevention and control of healthcare acquired infections is a national priority and ensuring the quality of existing services is no exception. Coinciding with the release of the new Code of Practice and related guidance, the one day conference has been developed to provide delegates with firsthand knowledge on critical topics including what the Code demands from care homes, the legal risks, the extent and costs of healthcare associated infections, among many others.
Guest Speaker Edwina Currie attended the conference with providers, commissioners and regulators, presenting the risk factors involved, and the spread and decontamination of infections in care homes. See the brochure for more details.
London, 22 June 2010
The Health & Social Care Act 2008 requires all providers of adult social care and independent healthcare to register against the same framework and focuses on cleanliness and infection prevention and control requirements. There is an urgent need to ensure that good infection control practice is consistently but proportionately applied in all sectors so that the numbers of infections can be reduced and benefit service users. Improving the prevention and control of healthcare acquired infections is a national priority and ensuring the quality of existing services is no exception. Coinciding with the release of the new Code of Practice and related guidance, the one day conference has been developed to provide delegates with firsthand knowledge on critical topics including what the Code demands from care homes, the legal risks, the extent and costs of healthcare associated infections, among many others.
Guest Speaker Edwina Currie attended the conference with providers, commissioners and regulators, presenting the risk factors involved, and the spread and decontamination of infections in care homes. See the brochure for more details.
Reducing HCAIs 2010 - A Health Economy Approach to Quality Care
Tuesday 16th June 2010, Church House Conference Centre, London
Edwina Currie, Patron MRSA Action UK, presented the patient perspective and looked at the picture across the regions, more.....
Healthcare Associated Infections and the Patient Pathway
High impact practical solutions
Wellcome Trust
Friday 21st May 2010
High impact practical solutions
Wellcome Trust
Friday 21st May 2010
The aim of this conference was to engage a wide range of stakeholders and researchers from different disciplines in identifying basic gaps at all levels of the patient pathway, and to accelerate patient outcomes by providing high-impact practical solutions that will be achievable within a five year time frame. MRSA Action UK were able to bring the patient perspective to the discussions and workshops hosted by the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council, Department of Health and Health Protection Agency. Derek Butler, Chair, brought some scenarios from private industry including his own Nuclear industry, where tracking systems and diagnostics play an important role in regulating hazardous substances, some of which can be applied to the pathogens and the problems that antimicrobial resistance are causing in the healthcare profession, more....
Healthcare associated infections - service user research forum
London, May 4th 2010
Maria Cann is a core member of the service user research forum and a representative of MRSA Action UK. If anyone is interested in becoming involved in the research forum there are vacancies. The group meets around twice annually and communicates on research proposals on a regular basis. There are opportunities to review research proposals and to be involved in patient led research relating to prevention and raising awareness of healthcare associated infections more ........
