Members of our Standards Team attended the One Health event on 20 November 2018 to mark European Antibiotics Awareness Day and share our National Standards for infection prevention and control in community services.
Pictured at the event, from left to right, are members of HIQA’s Advisory Group: Helen Murphy, Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC); Rosarie Lynch, Head of Patient Safety Surveillance, National Patient Safety Office; Professor Martin Cormican, Health and Wellbeing Division, Health Service Executive (HSE); Linda Weir, HIQA; Dr Karen Burns, HPSC; Dr Nuala O’Connor, ICGP GP Lead HSE Clinical Programme HCAI-AMR; Rachel Flynn, HIQA’s Director of Health Information and Standard; and Mary McKenna, HCAI and AMR Clinical Programme, HSE.
Many thanks to the Advisory Group, made up of a diverse range of interested and informed parties, who helped HIQA to develop these standards.
Read the standards.