Infectious diseases

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1. Global antibiotic resistance surveillance report 2025 (13 October 2025)

   • Global health
   • Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
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     • Global health
     • Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
     • Infection control
     • Medicine - Infectious disease
     • Medication

   By Patient Safety Learning, 13 October, 2025

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   • 13 October, 2025

2. Vaccination in the UK: Access, uptake and equity (RCPH, July 2025)

   • Vaccination
   • Children and Young People
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     • Children and Young People
     • Health Disparities
     • Communication
     • Appointment
     • Organisation / service factors
     • Patient / family involvement
     • Measles

   By Patient Safety Learning, 6 August, 2025

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   • 6 August, 2025

3. WHO: Progress and challenges with achieving universal immunization coverage (15 July 2025)

   • Measles
   • Vaccination
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     • Measles
     • Vaccination
     • Data
     • Global health

   By Patient Safety Learning, 15 July, 2025

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   • 15 July, 2025

4. WHO: Vaccines explained (April 2025)

   • Vaccination
   • Infection control
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     • Vaccination
     • Infection control
     • Medicine - Infectious disease
     • Global health

   By Patient Safety Learning, 23 April, 2025

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   • 23 April, 2025

5. Antimicrobial-resistant infections in hospitalized patients (14 March 2025)

   • Medicine - Infectious disease
   • Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
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     • Medicine - Infectious disease
     • Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
     • Hospital ward

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 21 March, 2025

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   • 21 March, 2025

6. National Audit Office: Investigation into how government is addressing antimicrobial resistance (26 February 2025)

   • Medicine - Infectious disease
   • Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
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     • Medicine - Infectious disease
     • Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
     • Infection control
     • Public health

   By Patient Safety Learning, 10 March, 2025

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   • 10 March, 2025

7. Why won’t my doctor give me antibiotics? Ron Daniels explains.

   • Sepsis
   • Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
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     • Sepsis
     • Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
     • Infection control
     • General Practice

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 4 February, 2025

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   • 4 February, 2025

8. Tackling antimicrobial resistance: How to keep antibiotics working for the next century (November 2024)

   • Medicine - Infectious disease
   • Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
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     • Medicine - Infectious disease
     • Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
     • Infection control
     • Medication
     • Policies
     • Global health

   By Patient Safety Learning, 13 November, 2024

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   • 13 November, 2024

9. Avoiding nosocomial transmission - useful infographics from HSIB (October 2020)

   • Infection control
   • Healthcare associated infection
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     • Infection control
     • Healthcare associated infection
     • Risk management
     • Risky behaviour
     • Organisational learning

   By Clive Flashman, 4 November, 2024

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   • 4 November, 2024

10. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021: a systematic analysis with forecasts to 2050 (28 September 2024)

    • Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
    • Medicine - Infectious disease
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      • Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
      • Medicine - Infectious disease
      • Infection control
      • Research
      • Global health

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 4 October, 2024

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    • 4 October, 2024

11. Long-term care healthcare-associated infections in 2023: An analysis of 23,970 reports (22 April 2024)

    • Healthcare associated infection
    • Medicine - Infectious disease
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      • Healthcare associated infection
      • Medicine - Infectious disease
      • Data
      • Research

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 4 July, 2024

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    • 4 July, 2024

12. Can another infected blood scandal be averted? (July 2024)

    • Global health
    • Healthcare associated infection
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      • Global health
      • Healthcare associated infection
      • Blood / blood products
      • Low income countries
      • Middle income countries
      • Regulatory issue

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 22 June, 2024

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    • 22 June, 2024

13. Antimicrobial resistance survivors: calling the world to action (23 May 2024)

    • Medicine - Infectious disease
    • Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
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      • Medicine - Infectious disease
      • Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
      • Patient

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 4 June, 2024

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    • 4 June, 2024

14. Use of the FebriDx® point-of-care-test for lower respiratory tract infections in primary care: a qualitative interview study (30 April 2024)

    • Infection control
    • Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
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      • Infection control
      • Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
      • Innovation
      • Testing
      • Primary care
      • GP
      • Medication

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 17 May, 2024

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    • 17 May, 2024

15. World Patient Safety Day 2023: How engaging patients has accelerated our progress towards hepatitis C elimination (18 September 2023)

    • Infection control
    • Medicine - Infectious disease
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      • Infection control
      • Medicine - Infectious disease
      • WPSD23
      • Patient engagement

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 20 September, 2023

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    • 20 September, 2023

16. Unpacking the social dimension of infection prevention and control – it’s not just about the germs. A blog by Julie Storr

    • Infection control
    • Social distancing
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      • Infection control
      • Social distancing
      • Pandemic
      • Human factors
      • Staff engagement

    By JULES STORR, 7 June, 2023

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    • 3,271 views
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    • Comment by Chedly
    • 14 July, 2023

17. Getting ahead of the curve: A strategy for combating infectious diseases including other aspects of health protection (Department of Health, 10 January 2002)

    • Infection control
    • Pandemic
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      • Infection control
      • Pandemic
      • Action plan
      • Leadership

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 5 June, 2023

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    • 5 June, 2023

18. Blood safety in India: Addressing the issue of infections (5 September 2022)

    • Blood / blood products
    • Healthcare associated infection
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      • Blood / blood products
      • Healthcare associated infection
      • India
      • Safety process
      • Regulatory issue

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 5 September, 2022

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    • 5 September, 2022

19. British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy: Antimicrobial stewardship: From principles to practice (2018)

    • Medication
    • Prescribing
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      • Medication
      • Prescribing
      • Cancer
      • Infection control
      • Medicine - Infectious disease

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 22 November, 2021

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    • 22 November, 2021

20. WHO: How vaccines can help prevent antibiotic resistance - Zimbabwe’s response to drug resistant outbreaks of typhoid and cholera (11 September 2021)

    • Medication
    • Prescribing
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      • Medication
      • Prescribing
      • Low income countries
      • Vaccination

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 19 November, 2021

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    • 19 November, 2021

21. CARE Webinar. Ventilator-associated pneumonia: Lessons and advances in practice (28 May 2021)

    • Ventilators
    • Pneumonia
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      • Ventilators
      • Pneumonia
      • Treatment
      • Diagnosis

    By Patient Safety Learning, 1 June, 2021

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    • 1 June, 2021

22. Take, Treat and Test webinar series: Pandemic or no pandemic – the threat of infectious disease (September 2020)

    • Virus
    • Pandemic
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      • Virus
      • Pandemic
      • Infection control
      • Medicine - Infectious disease
      • Sepsis

    By Patient Safety Learning, 8 October, 2020

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    • 8 October, 2020

23. Public Health England: Flu vaccination: easy read flu resources for patients (last updated 31 July 2020)

    • Influenza / pneumonia
    • Patient
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      • Influenza / pneumonia
      • Patient
      • Vaccination

    By Patient Safety Learning, 25 August, 2020

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    • 25 August, 2020

24. WHO Infection prevention and control implementation tools and resources

    • Infection control
    • Healthcare associated infection
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      • Infection control
      • Healthcare associated infection
      • Leadership
      • Training
      • Sepsis

    By Patient Safety Learning, 18 August, 2020

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    • 18 August, 2020

25. Domestic laundering of nurses’ uniforms: what are the risks? (2018)

    • Medicine - Infectious disease
    • Infection control

    By Patient Safety Learning, 3 April, 2020

    • 2 comments
    • 3,880 views
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    • Comment by Patient Safety Learning
    • 7 April, 2020