NEWS New national guidelines to be launched
At the annual Infection Prevention and Control Conference, NHSE/I will announce new guidelines for Infection Prevention and Control for the “whole health economy”. This will focus on the prevention of infection beyond acute hospitals, including community settings.
In June 2021, the G7 Health Ministers issued the following statement: “The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into stark focus the impact a novel and initially untreatable infectious disease can have on humanity to maintain and extend the efficacy of existing and emerging antimicrobials in treating infectious diseases. We reiterate the need for ongoing education and reinforced stewardship of the use of antimicrobials, including avoiding their use where there is no science-based evidence of effectiveness. The pandemic also highlighted the importance of infection prevention and control (IP&C) measures to tackle AMR, targeting both healthcare-associated and community-associated infections. “We will seek to build on the advances and investments made in these, broader IP&C measures and other measures, such as supply-chain strengthening, that have been integral to the COVID-19 response, but we must act strongly and across disciplines if we are to curb the silent pandemic of antimicrobial resistance. We recognise the importance of the research and development in new and innovative antimicrobials as well as alternatives to antimicrobials; vaccines, diagnostics and other countermeasures; and the need to take bolder steps to mitigate,
bloodstream infections. Throughout 2020, and much of 2021, we saw the biggest global pandemic in recent history. Managing outbreaks has taught us many lessons and it is important for us to celebrate the successes and examine the learning from shortcomings.
The event will review the lessons learned
and re-emphasise the need for effective hand washing and personal hygiene protocols, that quite literally became a life or death necessity. However, many of the infections that were being measured for improvement, pre-pandemic, still need to be addressed today – such as MRSA, C.diff, and Gram Negative Blood Stream infections, to name just a few. These HCAIs will be an important area for discussion.
minimise and contain the risk of AMR as part of our plans to ‘Build Back Better’, taking a ‘One Health’ approach.” Against this backdrop, and at a time of heightened focus on infection prevention, the annual Infection Prevention and Control Conference will take place in Birmingham, over two days (8-9 February 2022). Preparations are gathering pace and, in partnership with NHS England, the organisers are finalising the speaker line up which is set to include Ruth May, Chief Nursing Officer for England, and Jonathan Van Tam, Deputy Chief Medical Officer. In 2020, NHSE/I rolled out their vision of the NHS Long Term Plan for Infection Prevention and Control, with strong themes around AMR and Gram-Negative
Other themes for this national meeting will include outbreak management, improving hand hygiene (and auditing procedures), and decontamination/cleaning protocols. From the pandemic, we learnt much about preventing airborne transmission of infection. There will still be a strong focus on AMR as well as focusing on GNBSI, and the common causes such as UTIs. In this national meeting, speakers will revisit the common themes of infection prevention, review current control standards, and celebrate best practice.
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