31/03/2010: MRSA Action UK: Healthcare Associated Infections and the Patient Pathway - High impact practical solutions at the Wellcome Trust, London
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
12:00 AM
The Wellcome Trust, in collaboration with the Department of Health, the Medical Research Council and the Health Protection Agency, has invited Derek Butler to a workshop with the purpose of engaging a wide range of members of the Healthcare-associated infection community in identifying basic research gaps at all levels of the patient pathway and consequently accelerate healthcare outcomes by providing high-impact practical solutions that are achievable within a 5-year time frame.
The main objectives of the workshop are a) to review where we are now, where we aim to be in 5 years and how we aim to get there, b) to discuss how the community can work together more effectively. We welcome the opportunity to participate in developing solutions that will contribute to making caring safer for patients.
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