Date: Tuesday 3rd
November 2009
Venue: Church House, London
Whether you are an infection
control specialist or member of the hospital team, this one
day conference provides an important update on new measures
and steps to reduce Clostridium Difficile, with a focus
towards zero.
Date: Tuesday 8th
December 2009
Venue: Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester
Whether you are an infection
control specialist or member of the hospital team, this one
day conference provides an important update on the new
measures and steps to reduce Surgical Site Infection,
implementing the NICE SSI Guidance and moving forward with a
focus on towards zero.
Annual Evidence Update
on Patient Involvement in Patient Safety
National Library for
Health Patient and Public Involvement Specialist Library
This Annual Evidence Update
considers the issue of patient involvement in patient
safety, which can be defined as: the actions that patients
take to reduce the likelihood of medical errors and/or the
actions that patients take to mitigate the effects of
medical errors when they do occur.
The Annual Evidence Update looks at the ways in which
patients can help to improve patient safety, and also at the
willingness of patients to perform safety-related
behaviours.
The National Library for Health (NLH) is aimed at everyone
involved in the delivery or support of health and social
care in England. The NLH Specialist Libraries have been
developed to identify and meet the information needs of
particular communities of practice. They are web-based
collections containing clinical and non-clinical information
on the major health priority areas. Each NLH Specialist
Library identifies and provides access to quality assessed
information of relevance to the community that it serves. An
aspect of this involves the production of Annual Evidence
Updates, which aim to highlight the best current evidence
for selected healthcare topics. Annual Evidence Updates
consist of the good quality evidence from a search of
research evidence on a particular topic over a 12 month
period, plus user-friendly summaries written by relevant
experts, and links to guidelines, secondary research and
primary research, if applicable. All information included in
Annual Evidence Updates has been subject to rigorous
selection criteria.
Latest newsletter from
the Department of Health's Advisory Committee on
Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection
(ARHAI).
The ARHAI advisory
committee is set up to provide practical and scientific
advice to the Government on strategies to minimise the
incidence of healthcare associated infections and to
maintain the effectiveness of antimicrobial agents in the
treatment and prevention of microbial infections in man and
animals.
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