🦠 Our new study in the UK SIREN cohort over winter 2023/24: SARS-CoV-2 (21.8%), flu (5.3%) & RSV (7.3%) were common among healthcare workers - each linked to considerable staff absence (35.8% in total), with a combined 10,168 days of sick leave taken.
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Thrilled to be at my alma mater @LSHTM for the launch of the WHO/BMJ Global Health Community Hand Hygiene Guidelines—and to join the keynote panel. Sobering stats—1.7B still lack access to soap & water! Available here tinyurl.com/49333mmb 🧼🌍 #HandHygiene #PublicHealth #WHO

The best thing about global ‘one health’ events that are held in the zoo, is that at the end of the day you get to go to the zoo….

Delighted to help launch our Caribbean Antimicrobial Resistance Alliance (CARA) in Barbados - a joint initiative between the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and the UK Health Security Agency Health (UKHSA), supported by the UK’s Fleming Fund - with joint working with PAHO

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Pope Francis was a true servant leader, a most decent man, inclusive and humble, and forthright about social justice. A great loss indeed.

A very happy Easter to all who celebrate - many things as I get older and (somewhat) wiser continue to amaze me. That Peeps (truly an abomination) are ‘artificially flavoured’ is not one of these things…

For everyone who is Irish or holds Ireland dear to them - lá fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh

And a superb venue in the QE2, with London looking very welcoming despite the cold

What a wonderful venue to have a conference dinner at - and to see some old pals @drneilstone.bsky.social @neleshg.bsky.social
- looking forward to some exciting fungal resistance talks tomorrow at #FungalUpdate2025

This board in my hospital’s lobby - which highlights the first female Dean of our medical school (which was the first in Britain to train women as doctors), and the first woman qualified in medicine in the UK who practiced at our hospital - also shows just how long we have been underpaying nurses

Delighted to chair two great sessions at #FIS2024 on national outbreak response and lessons for future pandemics - FIS is a super conference for practical updates for the jobbing ID/Micro/IPC practitioner; excellent organisation by Healthcare Infection Society, and what a fantastic city Liverpool is

From the pond beside my hospital last week…