The Healthcare Infection Society hosted a webinar in September 2021, as part of their ‘IPC challenges and solutions – audience lead webinar series’, and we were delighted to be asked to sit on their panel of experts.
The event was a great success and we are delighted to be able to share with you a recording of the session.
Questions raised during the webinar included:
- What are the formal definitions for 'little use' of an outlet? And how many of our individual patient rooms in a hospital are likely to represent these?
- Is it possible to permanently eliminate Legionella and Pseudomonas from a water system? (without eliminating the water itself)
- Do you believe that quantitative PCR is a useful tool for Legionella water testing, particularly in a public health/hospital laboratory setting?
- Has the response to the Covid-19 pandemic impacted water safety and if so, how?
- What, if any, formal communication do we need to start putting out to the elderly, immunocompromised and vulnerable patients about potential risks our non-sterile healthcare water?
- Point of use filters are described as a temporary control measure - what happens when a hospital has to utilize a long term / permanent measure?
- Do you think waterless ITU's are the way forward?
The questions above were answered by the Panel Members:
- Teresa Inkster, Consultant Medical Microbiologist, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde;
- Daniel Pitcher, Managing Director, Water Hygiene Centre;
- Jimmy Walker, Independent Microbiological and Decontamination Consultant, Walker on Water;
- Mike Weinbren, Consultant Medical Microbiologist, NHS Scotland Assure and King's Mill NHS Trust.
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Editor’s Note: The information provided by the Water Hygiene Centre in this video is correct at the original publication date – September 2021.
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