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In this Insight Webinar, Dr Jessica Martin, Consultant Microbiologist and Medical Lead for Infection Prevention at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, explores how healthcare organisations can recognise, assess and manage water and wastewater hygiene risks in hospitals. Hosted by IPC Partners, the Healthcare Infection Society, and the Infection Prevention Society, and chaired Dr Jon Otter with Dr Phil Norville, this session goes beyond traditional water safety approaches to examine the growing evidence linking the built environment, water systems, wastewater and antimicrobial resistance to patient safety. 🔍 Key topics covered include: - Water hygiene risks beyond Legionella and Pseudomonas - The role of wastewater, drainage and biofilms in AMR transmission - Lessons from healthcare-associated outbreaks linked to water systems - Leadership, governance and multidisciplinary working - Practical risk assessment on wards (“putting your water goggles on”) - Sink placement, splash risk and drainage design - Responding to blockages, leaks and flooding events - Training, education and the importance of professionally trained staff to clean sinks - Reactive vs proactive water-safe care - Challenges and unintended consequences of sink removal - Future directions for surveillance, monitoring and hospital design This webinar is aimed at: - Infection Prevention & Control professionals - Microbiologists - Estates and engineering teams - Facilities and cleaning teams - Clinical leaders and patient safety teams - Anybody with an interest in water hygiene in healthcare 🎓 CPD This event was accredited for 1 CPD point by the Royal College of Pathologists. 📺 About Insight Webinars Insight Webinars are delivered in partnership with the Healthcare Infection Society (HIS), the Infection Prevention Society (IPS) and IPC Partners, providing expert-led discussion on key IPC and patient safety topics. 👉 Subscribe to the IPC Partners YouTube channel for more Insight Webinars and Journal Clubs. #WaterHygiene #InfectionPrevention #PatientSafety #IPC #AMR #BuiltEnvironment #HealthcareFacilities #WaterSafety #NHS

🦠 In this talk, Dr Jon Otter explores one of the most urgent challenges in infection prevention and antimicrobial resistance: the rise and spread of CPE across hospitals and community settings. Drawing on real-world outbreaks, global surveillance data, clinical impact, and economic analyses, this session explains: 🔍 What’s the Problem? - Why CPE is a major global AMR threat - Clinical outcomes, including mortality data and ICU risks - The mechanisms behind resistance and rapid spread - How environmental contamination, plasmid transmission, and antibiotic pressure fuel outbreaks 📉 How Bad Is It? - UK and global prevalence trends - Europe’s “north–south divide” in carbapenem resistance - Economic costs of CPE outbreaks, including bed closures, contact precautions, and prolonged stays - Community carriage data from multiple regions worldwide 🛑 How Do We Stop It? - Evidence‑based infection prevention strategies - Screening approaches and patient engagement - Environmental interventions (sinks, drains, duodenoscopes) - Antimicrobial stewardship successes - Emerging approaches to decolonisation, including FMT and CHG bathing 📘 About the Speaker Dr Jon Otter is Director of Infection Prevention & Control and Consultant Clinical Scientist at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London.

Welcome to another session of the IPC Partners Journal Club! In this episode, we’re delighted to host Dr. Yaseen Muhammad, Director of Infection Prevention & Control at Bradford Teaching Hospitals (UK). Yaseen shares a powerful real‑world quality improvement project focused on achieving zero central line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) in the ICU. This 43‑minute session explores: 🩺 The burden and impact of CLABSI in critical care 📉 How a multidisciplinary team brought rates down from 2/1,000 line days to zero 🧪 Bundle compliance, behaviour change, and the reality of sustaining improvements 🔬 Surveillance differences between the UK, Middle East, and US 👥 Why ownership and leadership are critical to prevention success 💡 Practical lessons from the front line—including what really made the difference 🏥 Can zero CLABSI truly be achieved and sustained in modern healthcare?