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🤔Do you keep up with the latest research and reviews in IPC? 🤔Are you looking to put your editorial skills to the test? The JHI is seeking a new Editor in Chief to lead the team and drive the Journal forward! 📗Job description: ow.ly/JHTX50VaoHx 📅Apply by 9 May 2025

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As #norovirus cases continue to rise across the country and @ukhsa.bsky.social warn of a potential second wave, we remind HIS members that the Society has comprehensive norovirus resources available to support members and the wider IPC community in tackling the virus. ow.ly/1JhL50V8gTL

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⭐#HISCON25 topics - Emerging Hot Topics in IPC⭐IPC is ever-changing and staying ahead of the curve is essential... dive deep into the latest trends, challenges, and innovations shaping the field. Submit your abstract👉https://ow.ly/wTBa50UKxcT Register👉 ow.ly/us8C50UKxcW

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New findings indicate a high probability of further spread of #CRE in hospital settings and in the community - a worrying trend since CRE infections are linked to high mortality. Immediate action is essential to control this problem and protect patients. Read the @ecdc.europa.eu comment below 👇🏾

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📢 External consultation open for draft guideline: Microbiological factors in the design, validation and verification of operating theatres. Further information and access the documents 👉https://ow.ly/51yZ50V4r89 Deadline 📅 5pm Friday 21 March

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⭐ #HISCON25 topics: Artificial Intelligence ⭐ Will #AI transform the future of IPC? Discover how cutting-edge AI technologies are tackling AMR, optimising patient care and enhancing hospital safety. 📌Goodenough College, London 🗓️17-18 June Register👉 ow.ly/NcVB50UKxcV

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🦠Hospital sinks harbour bacteria with the potential to infect patients 🏥This paper examines bacterial growth in the sinks of a newly constructed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit during the transition from an established #NICU within the same facility www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S019...

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Last chance to register 📢 One week to go until IPC Training Day Environmental aspects of IPC: risks and solutions. Led by experts including Manjula Meda, Michael Weinbren, Sandra Lai, Kay Gratton and more... 📅 25 Feb 💻 Online Register now 👉 ow.ly/BJ9s50UBJkZ

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Congrats to Clinical Microbiologist Prof Hilary Humphreys @rcsi.bsky.social on receiving the Paula Cotter medal at the Royal College of Physicians in Faculty of Pathology Annual Meeting. Pictured with RCSI’s Dr Rachel Grainger & RCPI president Prof Diarmuid O Shea @hisinfection.bsky.social

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Breaking news…BIA members can now register at the same rate as @hisinfection.bsky.social members #IDSky for #HISCON25 Early bird rates still available 🐣

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Less than two weeks to go until our next IPC Training Day - this specific training day won't be back for over two years so don't miss out! Full programme and register ow.ly/7hJ850UYmR8

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📢 NEW DATES RELEASED: Water and wastewater safety in healthcare course 📢 Our sold out course is back - learn how to improve #patientsafety by reducing the risk of #HCAIs💧 📅 29 April - 2 May (afternoons) 💻Online Registration👉 ow.ly/Jtxo50UKlZ5

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⭐ HIS Annual Conference #HISCON25 - Registration and abstract submission open⭐ Join us for one or two days in June where we explore 'Next Generation #IPC' in a future focused programme. Register now for SUPER earlybird rate 👉 ow.ly/4MI350UH3Ui

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#HISCON topics announced! 👉Intro to the new NHS Estates Technical Bulletin (in collaboration with Royal Society for Public Health) 👉Novel aspects of the built environment 👉AI 👉Whole genome sequencing 👉Emerging hot topics in IPC Sign up to our mailing list👉ow.ly/WniB50U6iVS

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Say hello to our new Chair Manjula Meda. Manjula brings a wealth of experience, dedication, and leadership to the Society. Read about Manjula's aims and priorities for the Society, and comments from HIS CEO Sarah Adibi in the full news story 👉 ow.ly/SRY250UAhnV

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Get ahead of the curve and pencil in your IPC events for 2025 ✏️ Most of our 2025 courses, conferences and events are now listed on our online events diary...and some already have their registration open! HIS Events diary 👉 ow.ly/cCeQ50QntMj #IDsky #Edusky #microsky #IPsky #Medsky

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This @un.org @unhcr.org #InternationalMigrantsDay we urge healthcare professionals working with migrants or in conflict situations to read our collection gathering research, observations and reviews from IPC teams worldwide, including Gaza, Tigray and Ukraine. ▶️https://bit.ly/3LPXmZ3 #IMD2025

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Delighted to announce that we are collaborating with @philnorville.bsky.social and @jon-otter.bsky.social from IPC Partners for an IPC Journal Club. 💧It's in the water? Addressing risks from healthcare water systems. With papers from @thejhi.bsky.social 💧 Register here: ow.ly/hMPx50U6UMS

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📢COURSE FULL: HIS/UKHSA Foundation course in IPC, March 2025. Next course will take place in Sept 2025, before RCPath autumn exams. Join the wait list to see if a place becomes available or sign up to Sept 2025 mailing list for priority bookings 👉 ow.ly/iKNl50UmlxV

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Some practices aren't underpinned by sound scientific evidence, but they are established in everyday practice. Guidelines from @hisinfection.bsky.social sky.social and @escmid.bsky.social provide further advice on which practices are unnecessary www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S019...

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Global Report on IPC for 2024 recently published by @who.int. The report finds that though 71% of countries now have an active IPC programme, just 6% met all of the WHO IPC minimum requirements in 2023-2024. This is well behind the target... Read report and act now!👉 ow.ly/IoV550UnB40 #GlobalHealth

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🎓2025 IPC TRAINING DAYS RELEASED🎓 Register your place on all upcoming online #IPC training Days in 2025. The IPC Training Programme provides core content aligned to the JRCPTB and RCPath curricula, covering core educational needs of IPC trainees. Register👉https://ow.ly/OlZr50UnBLB #IDsky #Medsky

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📢COURSE FULL: HIS/UKHSA Foundation course in IPC, March 2025. Next course will take place in Sept 2025, before RCPath autumn exams. Join the wait list to see if a place becomes available or sign up to Sept 2025 mailing list for priority bookings 👉 ow.ly/iKNl50UmlxV

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Delighted to chair the afternoon session - focus on delivering quality education on #IPC and #AMS and role of #sim training in #outbreaks and specific #preventive activities

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Get ahead of the curve and pencil in your IPC events for 2025 ✏️ Most of our 2025 courses, conferences and events are now listed on our online events diary...and some already have their registration open! HIS Events diary 👉 ow.ly/cCeQ50QntMj #IDSky #IPC

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Become a member of HIS today and join a network of over 1,400 experts working in the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections. We have lots planned in 2025 at the Society - don't miss out! Join today 👉 ow.ly/4QcQ50QnmFe

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📢 ONE WEEK TO GO: IPC route to net zero conference 🌳FREE for all HIS and IPS members! Thank you to our IPC Route to #NetZero Conference sponsors TorkUK and MTP_Innovations Jointly organised with IPS_Infection, register now 👉ow.ly/B57X50TvmUQ

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We're delighted to say that our IPC Journal Club in partnership with @hisinfection.bsky.social all about addressing risks from healthcare water systems (22nd Jan 2025) has been approved by the Royal College of Pathologists for 1 CPD credit. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c882f5...

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📢 Over 50% of places already booked for HIS/ UKHSA Foundation Course in IPC 📅 Live sessions will take place 10-14 March with leading #IPC experts. Taking your RC Path exam in Spring? This is perfect revision ✍ Book now👉 ow.ly/w2fN50U4l2g

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10 days left until our next #IPC Leadership Development Course. Speakers @PeterLachman @emrsa15 @teresaink @JosephineHegar1, Akan Otu, Sonia Nosheen and more TBA 📅5 Dec 💻Online Register👉 ow.ly/zpYa50SN03k #LeadershipDevelopment #ProfessionalGrowth

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Delighted to tell you about an IPC Journal Club in partnership with @hisinfection.bsky.social, on Jan 22nd 2025! "It's in the water? Addressing risks from healthcare water systems", based on a @thejhi.bsky.social special edition. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c882f5...

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Great cases in the Tropical Grand Round at #FISHIS24 with expert panel chaired by Fiona McGill 1) Murine typhus with HLH 2) P. ovale malaria with severe G6PD deficiency 3) Scrub typhus 4) Loa loa with eyeworm & calabar swellings @hisinfection.bsky.social @biainfection.bsky.social

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First @bsky.app post! Great session today #FISHIS about the importance of learning from the pandemic for the future. Thanks @hisinfection.bsky.social @marionkoopmans.bsky.social @ewanharrison.bsky.social

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A great chance to connect with friends and new and former colleagues in #infection

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#FISHIS24 what a fantastic 3 days in Liverpool! Thank you @hisinfection.bsky.social and fitwise for organising. @idiots-pod.bsky.social Conference wrap up coming soon! #idsky

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And so it ends! Thank you to everyone who attended this year's #FISHIS24, and to Dr James Price for his role as Chair and for his closing remarks.

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The importance, implementation challenges, and complex epidemiology of arbovirus serology illustrated by the MERMAIDS study of hospitalised patients with arbovirus-compatible symptoms in Southeast Europe @marionkoopmans.bsky.social #fishis24 @hisinfection.bsky.social @biainfection.bsky.social

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#FISHIS24 Bridging the research gap. Nigel Saunders from Genpax. Use Nike principles - Just do it! Amazing research career! 3 golden rules: So what? Solve the solvable. Do you care? If yes do it.

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Narrative reporting- we should all be doing this! It uses the opportunity to use our routine reports for maximum impact for patients. To take this further we need to ensure we are writing for patients and clinicians #FISHIS24 phw.org.uk/narrativerep...

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Coming to the end of a big week in Liverpool, great to share some of our work on pathogen transmission and antibiotic persistence. Thanks @jayhinton.bsky.social for hosting me at @liverpooluni.bsky.social and thanks to the Microbiology Society for the support to present at #FISHIS24

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BSMM session starting up with @andy-borman.bsky.social giving an update on C. auris outbreaks at #FISHIS24

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Jasmin Islam #FISHIS24 talks about important lessons from pandemic planning. Favourite point is collaboration!

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How do we know what to prepare for? Marion Koopmans #FISHIS24 Pandemic planning needs early recognition and action.

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Trichophyton indotineae, the terrifying consequence of widespread use of topical terbinafine at subtherapeutic doses and example of emerging resistance in common fungal presentation from the Leeds Mycology Reference Centre #fishis24 @hisinfection.bsky.social @biainfection.bsky.social

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Interesting talk on C. auris by @andy-borman.bsky.social. Additional clades emerging, much more to understand about resistance mechanisms, and the importance of careful individualised infection control 🍄 #fishis24 @hisinfection.bsky.social @biainfection.bsky.social

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Today’s @theguardian.com features HIS chair Manjula Meda on “getting to know the carbapenem-resistant superbugs brewing in hospital wastewater”. Proud to be included in this #AMR&InfectiousDiseases campaign during @who.int #WAAW Read full article 👉 issuu.com/mediaplanetuk/…

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Irina is our day 2 puzzle winner from yesterday at #FISHIS24. She was a fierce competitor and really wanted her cuddly microbe… enjoy Irina!

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Useful visual on bacterial causes of petechial/purpuric rashes Debbie Beer presenting on chronic meningococcal bacteraemia #fishis24 #idsky

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