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UPCOMING EVENT: Reducing Clostridium Difficile
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.

Contact: For more information please call Hanisha on 020 8541 1399, email hanisha@healthcare-events.co.uk or visit http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk

Download Brochure:
http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk/conf/booking.php?action=home&id=348
 
UPCOMING EVENT: Surgical Site Infection
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.

Contact: For more information please call Hanisha on 020 8541 1399, email hanisha@healthcare-events.co.uk or visit http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk

Download Brochure:
http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk/conf/booking.php?action=home&id=366 
 
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 update can be downloaded by clicking here

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.

To download the latest newsletter please click here.

For more information on this Committee please go to http://www.advisorybodies.doh.gov.uk/arhai/

If you would like to subscribe to the ARHAI Newsletter let them know by sending an email to ARHAINewsletter@hpa.org.uk

 

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