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Does anyone else find buying glasses more traumatic than moving house? I’ve just walked out without anything after an hour of being told every pair was too big/ small/ wrong shape for my face/ wrong for the lenses I need…

My trusty 20 year old work flask. For water, squash, and tea only, I swear Wendy Cupid !

Cheering myself at the end of the week with a memory of two years ago: walking around Tesco in hysterics with this fellow I found in the aubergine pile. Glorious day

Trying to quickly craft an education board for training this week, while failing to convince the ginger mega-chonk that it is not her new bed

🔊 E.coli update As of 11 June, we have identified a further 98 cases associated with an ongoing outbreak of a Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC) bringing the total to 211. We're continuing our epidemiological analysis & whole genome sequencing to identify any further cases.

🪠There is currently no UK guidance on the management of drain related outbreaks or the design of new buildings to mitigate risk 📖Addressing the challenges from hospital drainage systems should be considered a priority by agencies and guidance developers ow.ly/uNPn50Sk41O

Diarrhoea & vomiting bugs can spread easily – but simple actions can help to avoid infecting others, including washing your hands regularly with soap and warm water, and avoiding going to work or school, or preparing food for others until 48 hours after your symptoms clear

Has anyone ever managed to live with both a cat AND carpet?

Pretty sweet way to end the week (despite the England result) Surrey Cricket

Monday I return from leave, to an NHS under Labour. So expecting as a min: - Drs to be given their requested pay increase - GP surgeries employing qualified GPs - IENs to not have to pay ££££ to work in this country - investment in hospital infrastructure that can aide IPC 🙏

The UK will become the first country in the world to roll out a national vaccination programme against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), protecting infants & older people from becoming seriously ill. RSV accounts for 39,000 hospitalisations each year. gov.uk/government/new…

Paraphrased as ‘everyday I eat some of my (or someone else’s) poo’. What a great way to acquire life-threatening HUS, whilst also making others sick. These Olympics may get a gold medal for producing the most infectious diseased group of athletes to date…

In completely unrelated news: 2024 marks 20 years of me working as an Infection Prevention nurse Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust 💙, and also turns out to be the year I rediscovered Heinz Sandwich Spread🥪

Annual face to face meet up for the cross-site Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust 💙 Infection Prevention Team. Getting to know each other better, starting work on our ambitions for the year, and brave Natalie volunteering as our HCID PPE mannequin in 31 deg discomfort🥵

We are now in our fourth or fifth Covid wave of the year with little time between waves. I think this is a consequence of return to school & work plus a cold and wet September. The latest subvariant XEC is not yet prevalent enough here to be driving this wave. 1/2

Happy #IIPW2024 & thank you to the fabulous FHFT IPC Team💙 who look petrified in our first ever video (& my husband asked why I wasn’t talking in my Glos accent 🤣) Thanks for being patient with us Ernie - we’ll be experts next time!

As part of International Infection Prevention Week #IIPW #IIPW24, HIS has matched its training courses to the @NHSE IPC education framework to help doctors, nurses and healthcare staff working in IPC to identify the correct training 🎓 Browse the map👉ow.ly/4Qln50TLppU

Norovirus is common, highly infectious, can cause serious and unpleasant illness, closes hospital wards especially over winter and is a risk to care homes. A norovirus vaccine, if effective, would be a major step forward. Thank you to those taking part in and running this trial

Thank you for all your hard work, my exceptional IPC Team (and I do mean YOUR work, as I was getting my learn on in the Healthcare Infection Society Water and wastewater safety in healthcare course! (which I highly recommend for IPC Practitioners!))

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest global health challenges we face and without action 39m lives could be lost by 2050. Through innovation, collaboration & a #OneHealth approach we can change the future #WAAW2024 #AMR #EducateAdvocateAct The Fleming Fund