Infection Prevention Nurse Consultant, fast-walking, cricket-loving, Vegemite-addicted wife. All views are my own.
Sandhurst, South East
Joined January 2017
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Vigent 💙 retweeted
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest global health challenges we face and without action 39m lives could be lost by 2050. Through innovation, collaboration & a #OneHealth approach we can change the future #WAAW2024 #AMR #EducateAdvocateAct @FlemingFund
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Norovirus is common, highly infectious, can cause serious and unpleasant illness, closes hospital wards especially over winter and is a risk to care homes.
A norovirus vaccine, if effective, would be a major step forward. Thank you to those taking part in and running this trial
An innovative #norovirus vaccine #ClinicalTrial will open across the UK over the next 2 weeks. Despite being one of the most common and infectious causes of diarrhoea & vomiting, there aren't yet any licensed vaccines anywhere in the world 💉
Read more ➡️ nihr.ac.uk/news/uks-first-no…
Thank you for all your hard work, my exceptional IPC Team (and I do mean YOUR work, as I was getting my learn on in the @HIS_infection Water and wastewater safety in healthcare course! (which I highly recommend for IPC Practitioners!))
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As part of International Infection Prevention Week #IIPW #IIPW24, HIS has matched its training courses to the @NHSE IPC education framework to help doctors, nurses and healthcare staff working in IPC to identify the correct training 🎓
Browse the map👉ow.ly/4Qln50TLppU
Happy #IIPW2024 & thank you to the fabulous FHFT IPC Team💙 who look petrified in our first ever video (& my husband asked why I wasn’t talking in my Glos accent 🤣)
Thanks for being patient with us @ErnieSantosFH - we’ll be experts next time!
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Vigent 💙 retweeted
We are now in our fourth or fifth Covid wave of the year with little time between waves.
I think this is a consequence of return to school & work plus a cold and wet September. The latest subvariant XEC is not yet prevalent enough here to be driving this wave. 1/2
Annual face to face meet up for the cross-site @FrimleyHealth Infection Prevention Team. Getting to know each other better, starting work on our ambitions for the year, and brave Natalie volunteering as our HCID PPE mannequin in 31 deg discomfort🥵
In completely unrelated news:
2024 marks 20 years of me working as an Infection Prevention nurse @FrimleyHealth, and also turns out to be the year I rediscovered @HeinzUK Sandwich Spread🥪
Paraphrased as ‘everyday I eat some of my (or someone else’s) poo’.
What a great way to acquire life-threatening HUS, whilst also making others sick.
These Olympics may get a gold medal for producing the most infectious diseased group of athletes to date…
One competitor is willing to go to extreme lengths to compete in the triathlon at #Paris2024, even if he's faced with the pollution issues in the River Seine ⚠️
#Olympics #BBCOlympics
ALT Team USA triathlete Seth Rider speaks about taking part in the triathlon in the River Siene, stating, "We know that there's going to be some E. coli exposure, so I just try to increase my E. coli threshold by exposing myself to a bit of E. coli in your day-to-day life. Just little things throughout your day, like, not washing your hands after you go to the bathroom and stuff like this."
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Vigent 💙 retweeted
The UK will become the first country in the world to roll out a national vaccination programme against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), protecting infants & older people from becoming seriously ill. RSV accounts for 39,000 hospitalisations each year.
gov.uk/government/news/natio…
Monday I return from leave, to an NHS under Labour. So expecting as a min:
- Drs to be given their requested pay increase
- GP surgeries employing qualified GPs
- IENs to not have to pay ££££ to work in this country
- investment in hospital infrastructure that can aide IPC
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Diarrhoea & vomiting bugs can spread easily – but simple actions can help to avoid infecting others, including washing your hands regularly with soap and warm water, and avoiding going to work or school, or preparing food for others until 48 hours after your symptoms clear
Vigent 💙 retweeted
🔊 E.coli update
As of 11 June, we have identified a further 98 cases associated with an ongoing outbreak of a Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC) bringing the total to 211.
We're continuing our epidemiological analysis & whole genome sequencing to identify any further cases.
14 June: @GreencoreGroup recalls sandwiches, wraps and salads because of possible contamination with E. coli #FoodAlert bit.ly/4bUNzhI
ALT Product Recall - Food Standards Agency
Trying to quickly craft an education board for training this week, while failing to convince the ginger mega-chonk that it is not her new bed
Cheering myself at the end of the week with a memory of two years ago: walking around Tesco in hysterics with this fellow I found in the aubergine pile. Glorious day
Does anyone else find buying glasses more traumatic than moving house? I’ve just walked out without anything after an hour of being told every pair was too big/ small/ wrong shape for my face/ wrong for the lenses I need…
Love seeing this after my pondering tweet about appearance policies three weeks ago. Nice move to bring the emphasis back on #handhygiene, and apply evidence-based IPC guidance (would have liked to see promotion of sanitiser use for reducing GNB transmission risks though…)
