An updated list of antibiotic resistant pathogens has been released by World Health Organization (WHO)👉 twtr.to/C_x5Z
It is vital that healthcare organisations utilise #infectionpreventionandcontrol to reduce their spread, protecting patients and reducing the spread of antibiotic resistance 💊🏥

Today a national workshop on retinopathy in premature babies takes place with health professionals from Ireland's paediatric and maternity hospitals. Karen Brennan, National Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) Coordinator explains why this is so important.

Another week on-call done and another week with so much whooping cough. Lots of outbreaks, often centred around small babies admitted to hospital.
Some people might say that measles is just a mild disease (though they’d be wrong), but absolutely nobody can tell you that whooping

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Still some places left - book now to join us in the 12th June !

Congratulations to Tracy Doherty, our fantastic leader for IP&C, who sat on the expert panel at the IPCI National Conference, discussing outbreak management, and also presenting a very informative poster... #collaboration #fantasticwork #livingpathway

The HSE Ireland staff embargo is denying patients vital care, increasing staff burnout and driving valuable professionals out of this country. Conditions in Irish hospitals will only get worse if the embargo does not end. Spot on statement by Dr.Ronan collins Fórsa trade union

Improve #IPC training and education: mandate professional development to ensure knowledge and best practices of hand hygiene in your workforce. #WorldHandHygieneDay 🖐

HIS provide IPC training courses for all IPC professionals, browse courses👉ow.ly/eyk650RtCVf

Important to identify & learn from incidents to promote safety without blame.
Children's Health Ireland Rob Cunney alida fe talento National Office of Clinical Audit

📋New review elucidates existing knowledge on #HumanResource measures in IPC and its impact on pandemic preparedness
📊With a shortage of IPC professionals, HR measures during & between pandemics are more important for establishing #PandemicPreparedness
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Powerful words from Gonzalo Bearman IPCIreland Beaumont Hospital IPC Infection Prevention and Control #TUH Children's Health Ireland Jincy Jerry

The Quick Climate Wins for General Practice Series #3 - Sustainable Diet.

Dr John Allman explores the food choices you can make to improve both your own and the planet's health.
#SustainableDiets
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#GreenSurgery RCSI Resource to aid the surgical team in reducing the environmental impact of surgical care Camilla Carroll

Today is Ireland's Overshoot Day - the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.

If everyone lived like we do in Ireland, we would need three planets to sustain us.

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Positive deviance is an effective method of delivering change in healthcare #ipci2024 #bottomup

A very topical subject being discussed by Jincy Jerry #IPCI24 Audrey byrne Beaumont Hospital IPC Bróna Fletcher Tracy Egan Doherty

Antimicrobial resistance and future pandemics are highlighted as the 2 largest risks on Ireland's national risk assessment #ipci

Keynote speaker Dr. Gonzalo Bearman speaking about change behaviour in healthcare Jincy Jerry emer ward Bróna Fletcher Anu binu

You would think that an important symbolic date such as Ireland's Overshoot Day warrants a headline feature.

You would be mistaken.

The Irish media's coverage of the #ClimateCrisis and #BiodiversityCrisis remains poor.

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