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Infection Control Matters — 193 episodes · page 1 of 2
Cleaning is Patient Safety: Empowering the People Who Keep Hospitals Safe
Evidence or Efficiency? How We Make IPC Decisions
RCTs in Infection Prevention and Control - Are we getting the evidence that we need?
Who Do You Listen To? The Hidden Influencers of Hand Hygiene
C. difficile: Follow the Faeces
WISDOM: Using AI to Prioritise Surgical Wound Review
Candidozyma auris: Disinfection and the Biofilm Problem
Brush, Rinse, Prevent Pneumonia: The HAPPEN Trial Story
ESCMID Global 2026 Posters (Part 2): Patient Partnership, Communication and Collaboration
ESCMID Global 2026 – Selected Gems from the Poster Hall (Part 1)
Highlights from ESCMID 2026: Key Papers in Infection Control
ESCMID Global 2026: What Matters for Practice
Why Healthcare Cleaning Is Different: Reflections from Interclean 2026
Automated bloodstream infection surveillance - Measuring what matters?
Surfaces - High touch or high risk?
Do we feel that we are experts? Take two
Resourcing of hospital infection prevention and control programs
Hospital or Crime Scene? What Forensic Science Reveals About “Clean”
AMR at a National level - The 2025 ESPAUR Report
2025 Christmas Special
Unseen Reservoirs, Unseen Risks: Integrating Wastewater Surveillance with Patient-Level Insights into C. auris Spread
Can ward rounds transform IPC education?
Reducing harm at the Front Line: Oral Care driving down C. difficile and Line Care - the Power of Better Data
Posters from the 2025 Innovation Academy at ICPIC and from the UK IPS Conference
What Should Infection Prevention Teams Stop Doing? ICM Live at the 2026 IPS Brighton Conference
Cutting CDC and IPC funding in the US - Implications and what can we do?
Safeguarding During Transit: RAF Expertise in High Consequence Infectious Disease Retrieval
The no diaper (AKA nappy) zone - reducing CAUTI?
Can modelling tell us what factors influence CAUTI in long and short-term catheters?
Leading Public Health, ID and IPC during challenging times
What's new in Surgical Site Infection Prevention? Update from EUCIC
Posters from the Hong Kong Infection Control Nurses Association conference
The Plume Room - adventures in toilet hygiene
Automated national HCAI surveillance - potential or pipedream?
A re-introduction to Infection Control Matters 1500 days on
National vs local IPC Guidelines - Lost in Translation?
Candidozyma auris from the lab to the front line: A discussion with UKHSA experts
Use of AI to create a podcast discussion - are we out of a job?
The Sinkbug Survey: Antibiotics, AMR, Chemicals and Plumbing
Surveillance for HCAI - What is important, feasible and useful - and what isn't..
nv-HAP surveillance too time-consuming? Semi-automated may be easier than you think
Methods of assessing effectiveness of hospital cleaning - a review and peek into the future?
Reducing CAUTI in intermittent self-catheterisation. The trial that didn't make it..
A poster walk at ACIPC 2024
Engaging Junior Doctors in IPC
The 2024 End of Year Special
In-room air purification to prevent respiratory infection in aged care - Does it help?
Do you have enough staff in your IP Team? Calculating the staffing requirement for your program
Could you have an ERCP-related outbreak? Sequencing to the rescue but you'll have to trash the scope!
Reducing glove use in the ambulance service
Can sensors and AI improve cleaning and patient safety?
Prevalence, fundamental care, UTI recorded live at the Infection Prevention Society Conference 2024
Is IPC the friend of sustainability?
The CLEEN study: Background and discussion with the authors
Removing contact precautions - what trial do we need?
Using AI in Infection Prevention: Opportunities and Dangers
An award-winning MDT collaborative approach to reducing risks from water in a large organisation
Healthcare Cleaning - a visit to Interclean that's an eye-opener
A novel approach to employing environmental service workers and an outbreak (or pseudo-outbreak) of SSI
More posters from ESCMID Global 2024, inc C. diff, UV-C, wastewater surveillance, LA-MRSA
Posters from ESCMID Global 2024 - Part 1
Reflections on Day 3 at ESCMID Global 2024
Reflections on day 2 of ESCMID Global 2024
Discussing the new WHO infectious respiratory particles paper at ECCMID (With Prof Cath Noakes)
ECCMID 2024 - The year in infection control
Reflections on the first morning at ECCMID 2024
Visualising infection transmission using genomics
Investigating a unique CPE strain outbreak - a possible new place to look?
C. difficile in England is on the rise, but why? A sign of a system on the edge and could a new variant push it over?
What do C. difficile and HAP have in common - toilet plume??
A national CPE survey of healthcare workers knowledge and some interesting sink practices
90% Reduction in MRSA bacteraemia. Possible but patience is a virtue!
C. difficile: Disinfectants, attachment and strain variations
The 2023 End of Year/Christmas Special
If you could have anything in IPC, what would you want?
Would you be admitted to a room where a previous person was infected?
MDRO Plasmid-related outbreaks - is there anything we can do? With Jon Otter
Ice machines - a chilling thought?
Detection of pathogens in the neonatal ICU environment with Dr Ginny Moore
Preventing device-associated infections during a COVID-19 pandemic
Identifying healthcare cleaning research priorities in resource-limited settings
Sinks in ICU Patient Rooms. Lower numbers of sinks equals lower infection rates?
Future directions for surveillance
C. difficile and One Health with Prof Tom Riley
Saving time and increasing IPC efficiency using Robotic Process Automation
A CLEEN study chat and a rude interruption!
Surgical site infection, quality improvement and patient involvement with Sinéad Horgan
Implementation of HAP Prevention - not what you do but the way that you do it
Have gloves and gowns had their day?
Surveillance and Antimicrobial Stewardship in long-term care facilities
Outbreaks you didn’t know that you had - the joy of whole genome sequencing
Staff opinions of automated hand hygiene monitoring
Human factors and cleaning in the perioperative setting
The 100th
Right specimen, right time - The importance of diagnostic stewardship
C. difficile - a constant challenge to stay still
Detection, removal and prevention of environmental biofilms
The Sink Splash Zone - danger lies within?
Oral Hygiene - attitudes and practice. Implications for pneumonia prevention.
Intermittent or indwelling catheter in reducing CAUTI?