Search Tag: infection prevention

Executive Health Management

Guillaume-laverdure-appointed-ceo-of-medicom-group

2022 14 Aug

Canada-based Medicom Group, a world leader in the production and distribution of infection prevention and control solutions , is pleased to announce the appointment of Guillaume Laverdure as CEO. He succeeds Ronald Reuben, founder of the company, and becomes the second person in the history of the group to hold this position. Mr. Laverdure has most...Read more

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Ips-autumn-webinar-series-2020

2020 12 Oct

Spea kers: MONDAY 12TH OCTOBER – FUTURE PROOFING – PRESENTATIONS Martin Kiernan Visiting Clinical Fellow, Richard Wells Research Centre, University of West London Professor Enrique Castro-Sánchez Lecturer, City, University of London TUESDAY 13TH OCTOBER – RESILIENCE - PRESENTATION Professor Cath Noakes...Read more

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Infection-prevention-2019

2019 22 Sep

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Ific-2016

2016 16 Mar

IFIC2016 finds itself in Vienna, the ‘City of Music’. It is a city with strong associations with Ignaz Semmelweis, the father of modern “hygiene”, and thus of healthcare infection prevention and control. Today, this field of work is – as many other aspects of our lives – confronted with intriguing perspectives as well as frightening but exciting challenges....Read more

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Primit-web-programme-encourages-hand-washing

2015 13 Aug

A randomised trial of more than 16,000 households in the UK used a web-based programme to encourage more frequent hand washing and found that it reduces the risk of catching and passing on respiratory tract infections to other household members. The research has been published in The Lancet. The programme called PRIMIT also showed that users of the...Read more

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Reporting-infection-data-time-consuming

2015 03 Jul

According to a new research, collecting and reporting data to federal health agencies is not the soundest of strategies. The study was presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). The research was conducted by infection preventionists at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital...Read more