By Healthcare Facilities Today

They say that there is safety in numbers - and you could not apply a more appropriate description to the delegates that attended the recent Infection Prevention Seminar 2013 earlier this month in the UK, according to a blog on the European Cleaning Journal website written by Mike Sullivan, managing director of hand hygiene products supplier GOJO Industries - Europe.

Infection Prevention 2013 was hosted by the Infection Prevention Society (IPS) and is the UK's largest infection prevention and control event. Despite being based in the UK, it is a truly international affair, attracting infection prevention professionals from around the world.

The vision of the IPS is that no person is harmed by a preventable infection, and its mission is to inform, promote and sustain expert infection prevention policy and practice in the pursuit of patient or service user and staff safety, wherever care is delivered, the blog said.

"These are admirable aims, and they encapsulate why so many of us are utterly committed to helping reduce healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) and improve patient care and safety. The healthcare sector, especially the NHS, is subject to constant, and frequently harsh, media scrutiny, but IPS 2013 sent out many positive messages when it comes to healthcare and patient care," Sullivan wrote.

Read the blog.