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mobile bugs?
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| On Mar 7 2006 2:13PM carol.talbot wrote: |
My estates department have just sent me this communication. Would anyone like to comment?
Phones bugged
Mobile phones are cultivating the deadly superbugs causing havoc in Britain's hospitals, research has found.The first study of doctors' and nurses' mobile phones found one in ten was fostering a bacteria that can cause serious infection.
Now experts are calling for strict hygiene rules to ensure the increasingly common mobile phones are kept clean.
Researchers at Craigavon Area Hospital in Northern Ireland took swabs from 105 mobile phones used by doctors and nurses. Most of the phones were contaminated with bacteria and 15 were harbouring a strain known to cause serious infection.
Researcher Dr Richard Brady said the contamination of mobile phones risked spreading bacteria despite new measures to increase hand-washing in hospitals. He said: "We recognise mobile phones are going to be used more and more in health care settings and we are a little bit worried that the bacteria found on mobile phones could be a problem with hand hygiene." |
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| On Mar 8 2006 2:14PM martin.kiernan wrote: |
Again, this comes down to personal responsibility for hand decontamination prior to patient contact. If you go looking for bugs like MRSA on frequently touched items then you'll often find it. The trick is not to transfer it to the vulnerable.
Martin Kiernan
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 ICNA Community Network MeetingPlease note the next Community ICNA meeting is on the, Wednesday 6th September 2006 and will be held at Eastman Dental Hospital, London.
To download the agenda go to the CICNN page under 'Business and Special Interest Groups' (Member access required)
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The 36th Annual Infection Control ConferenceSeptember 25th to 27th 2006
The Brighton Centre
Brighton, England
This is THE Infection control conference of the year, focusing on prevention and control of infections in all areas of healthcare. The conference will provide a mixture of lectures, debates, concurrent sessions, workshops and networking.
Leading international Speakers who have already confirmed include Dr Seto Wing Hong and Stuart Emslie.
To be kept up to date with br... More
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