IPC_SBH

A great way to end my week - celebrating our directorate achievements and having some fun! So much for everyone to be proud of! 🙏🙏🙏 Gr8 2 b on winning emoji quiz team - embarrassingly contributing v little but was a great cheer leader! @ShereenNimmo @jay_ahmed_nhs 🎄🥳🎄🙏👏

Some festive fun with our fantastic Domestic team. Thank you for all of your hard work. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year! @st_voices13668 @mdstbarts @martinacnhs @CAlexanderNHS @ipc_royallondon

Today we celebrated our domestic team at SBH for all their hard work and the wonderful engagement with our recent Cleaning Standards QI project. Lots of fun had by all @st_voices13668 @NHSBartsHealth @CAlexanderNHS @mdstbarts @martinacnhs

Great turnout for our MedicinesSafety Campaign! 3 calls to action: ✅Empowering pts to self-administer their medicines where able to ✅Ensuring pts' medicines stay with them while in 🏥 ⬇️Dose omissions 🙏🏾 to everyone and @Ldn_Ambulance for support. The journey continues!

"The problem of [antimicrobial resistance (#AMR)] has been seen as either not urgent or too difficult to solve. Neither is true." A Lancet Series spotlights this global issue & how existing infection prevention methods could save 750,000 lives a year: hubs.li/Q02Y5v0D0

If antibiotics stop working, we could see bacterial infections wreak havoc as they did before the miracle of modern medicine. 🦠 Here are simple measures we can all take to keep antibiotics working for us. 👇

🩸Experts discussed best practice in the use of peripheral venous catheters and proposed practice points by consensus 📋Successful insertion and maintenance bundles in central venous lines are a blueprint to the implementation of adapted bundle strategies ow.ly/bbSl50TSkoS

St Bartholomew’s Hospital’s annual Breast Cancer Awareness Event saw huge success last week, raising over £1,400 for Breast Cancer Now and Barts Charity 💖 Daisy, Macmillan Breast Cancer Support Worker said: "It was a truly special day, I wish to thank everyone who contributed."

A few of our happy winners from todays ANNT promotion day at SBH. Thank you to all who took part. We hope you had some fun whilst learning about ANTT and IPC, which is so vital in providing safe quality care to our patients @NHSBartsHealth @martinacnhs @CAlexanderNHS

We had excellent engagement from colleagues today at our ANTT promotional event and SBH. Everyone who took part got a prize but more importantly learned something about ANTT @NHSBartsHealth @martinacnhs

A successful day promoting ANTT at SBH. There were lots of prizes to be won and educational activities for people to enjoy. @NHSBartsHealth @martinacnhs

Such wonderful engagement from colleagues yesterday at our launch meeting for the SBH Cleaning Standards QI project. There's a lot of work to do, but we are confident with the commitment seen today we can do it! @CAlexanderNHS @martinacnhs @NHSBartsHealth @mdstbarts @sphilpott72

Bumped into some porters on the 4th floor this afternoon. Great engagement with hand hygiene and perfect role models of bare below elbows 🙌 @CAlexanderNHS @martinacnhs @NHSBartsHealth

Wonderful engagement from ward 3D team today when the IPC team were promoting Hand Hygiene and 'Gloves Off'. Fantastic to see such a great commitment to IPC 😃. @martinacnhs @NHSBartsHealth @sphilpott72

The IPC team visited the 3rd floor wards today. Promoting Hand Hygiene and 'Gloves Off'. And of course, giving out some goodies to all the hard working staff who took part😊 @NHSBartsHealth @martinacnhs

Promoting IPC and showing our support for Estates and Facilities colleagues. Great to see so many people getting involved @NHSBartsHealth @martinacnhs @mdsbarts

Please support national EFM day and feel the joy thank you everyone @bartsthelondon

FM colleagues promoting hand hygiene on Estates & Facilities day. @NHSBartsHealth @CAlexanderNHS @martinacnhs @ipc_royallondon

Santa's little helpers (IPC division) were promoting Hand hygiene and festive cheer at the SBH site this afternoon 🎄🙌 @BartsHospital @NHSBartsHealth @CAlexanderNHS @martinacnhs

@walkerIPCN @BartsHospital @NHSBartsHealth @robinsona1511 @martinacnhs @Barts_Charity @CAlexanderNHS Great to meet so many wonderful domestic and hostess team members today. Thank you all!

A light lunch to say thank you to our amazing and hard working domestic and hostess teams @BartsHospital. Welcome to @NHSBartsHealth @robinsona1511 @martinacnhs @Barts_Charity @CAlexanderNHS