Newcastle upon Tyne IPCN Team @NewcastleHosp Working with staff, patients and visitors to provide harm free care.
Joined April 2022
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Community Infection Prevention and Control Week was amazing at St Oswald's Hospice. IPC information boards made by staff working together to educate staff, patients and visitors about IPC in the Hospice.
@TeasdaleCheryl @ianjoyRN @lisa_guthrie3 @StephEdusei @joanna_lumb
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Big thank you to @Clinell @SCJohnson Schulke, Bbraun and Tristell for supporting our IPC spooktacular event.
@NewcastleHosps @TeasdaleCheryl @lisa_guthrie3
Lots of excellent speakers & fabulous interactive learning opportunities at our spooktacular IPC study day. Thanks to all who attended. We look forward to seeing you put your new knowledge & skills in to practice in your clinical areas.
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Lots of excellent speakers & fabulous interactive learning opportunities at our spooktacular IPC study day. Thanks to all who attended. We look forward to seeing you put your new knowledge & skills in to practice in your clinical areas.
‘Let’s give 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene’ The IPCN Team visited staff at The Cataract Centre last week @ianjoyRN @lisa_guthrie3 @rachelblack70
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Come along and say hello to the IPCN and Continence Teams for C.difficile Awareness / No Cather No CAUTI Week . Here are Sarah, Esther and Rebecca by the Medicinema, RVI.
Great turn out for our IPC Study Day -Game of Germs. Fantastic speakers and lots of interactive games. Thank you to our sponsors who provided catering- GamaHealthcare, Schulke,ScJohnson and Tristel. @ianjoyRN
@lisa_guthrie3 @CherylTeas48980 @ParejaCebrian @GillianClinell
The IPC ‘spring clean’ campaign got off to a great start promoting all things relating to patient hygiene.Thanks to all areas we have visited so far for the great staff engagement #octenisan #cathetercare #cautiprevention #patienthandhygiene #mouthcarematters #scrubthehub #NuTH
The IPC team are launching the ‘spring clean’ campaign today. We will be visiting wards and dept’s over the month of April to talk about all things relating to patient hygiene. #octenisan #cathetercare #cautiprevention #mouthcarematters #scrubthehub
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#Measles spreads quickly and can be serious – but how infectious is it? Dr Colin Campbell, Consultant Epidemiologist, explains how measles ranks compared to other diseases and why #vaccination is so important.
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An excellent IT opportunity for a Technical lead working in collaboration with the IPC team to support ongoing adoption, maintenance and development of the ICNet application suite. Link👇 jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadv…
This week is antibiotic awareness week ! Look out for our IPC NursesMicrobiology & Pharmacy teams who will be doing education walk rounds on Wednesday & Thursday or come and visit ours stands at the Freeman & RVI all week for information and quizzes
Flying the flag for @NewcastleHosps and community teams. This has only been achieved by working together.
@NewcastleNMAHPs @NuTHImprovement
#IP2023Conf
We are looking forward to our second keynote speaker, Prof Shaheen Mehtar’s presentation ‘’Closing the IPC Divide between high and low income settings through education’’ at 9:00-9:35am in Hall 1A today. Don’t miss out! #IP2023Conf
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Bob Dylan once sang The Times They Are A- Changin’- well so has the colour of the IPCN Team uniform. Here is Rebecca and Esther wearing our lovely new blue uniforms.
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The week beginning Monday 18th September, NuTH Catheter Care Group are raising awareness of ‘No Catheter No CAUTI’ and UTI Prevention. This campaign is for all healthcare professionals to empower staff to stop and prevent urinary catheters causing harm to patients.
IPC and Sustainability working together. Lots to work on from this conference today...
@SustainableNUTH @IPS_Infection #IPCNetzero
Spending today virtually attending this event, to learn more about how we can continue to work with @NuthIpcn to deliver more sustainable healthcare, through increasing re-use and reducing waste.
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Wishing Bee a safe trip away with the Navy reserves, soon be back but we'll miss you @NewcastleHosps @RoyalNavy #IPCN
