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Sarah Bailey1 1 QED Environmental Services, L1 3 Loftus Street, West Leederville WA 6007 Construction of new buildings and alteration of existing buildings comes with a host of infection control risks that can have serious consequences for patients if not...

Lynda Whiteway1 1 Consumer Advocate My journey with sepsis began in February 2010, when I presented to a public hospital with a high temperature and extreme spinal and leg pain. I couldn’t put my left leg to the ground. I...

Renae McBrien1 1Queensland Children’s Hospital This oral presentation will compliment our 2022 ACIPC presentation and continue to showcase the environmental performance at Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service. We have fostered positive staff culture change and championed sustainable and...

Irene Barron1 1 Silverchain, 1 Richmond Road, Keswick, South Australia, 5035 Home care can be delivered within the person’s designated home, at a clinic, or in residential care. The primary goal of home care is to deliver safe, high-quality care,...

N. Deborah Friedman1 1VICNISS, Melbourne Health 300 Grattan Street Parkville, VIC In early 2022, locally acquired Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) disease was detected for the first time in humans in the southern states of Australia. Nationally, since January 2021, 45...

Martin Kiernan   In early 2020, the UK was faced with the uncomfortable decision to create field hospitals in convention centres due to the distinct possibility that the NHS would be overwhelmed. This paper will review the impact that the...

Christine Morrison1, 1 Anglicare Southern Queensland. Qld. 439 Anne St. Brisbane. cmorrison2@anglicaresq.org.au A year in review of an IPC lead in Aged Care will outline the programs developed for the aged care services of Anglicare Southern Queensland in 8 residential...

Megan Reilly1 1 Hands-On Infection Control, PO Box 233 North Perth, WA, 6906, megan@handsoninfectioncontrol.com.au On 13 October 2020, the then Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services, Senator the Hon Richard Colbeck wrote to all Commonwealth funded residential aged...

Kathy Dempsey Clinical Excellence Commission – NSW Health In a world where there appears to be ready access and so many platforms available for communication yet communication for Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) has never been more complex and possibly...

Marcin Sowa1, Jonas Fooken2, Kelly McGowan3, Stephen Birch4 1 Centre for the Business and Economics of Health, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia; Contact: m.sowa@uq.edu.au 2 Centre for the Business and Economics of Health, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia...