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Pat Cattini Silvester

@patcs66.bsky.social
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Corporate Director IPC, NHS 38+ years, Past President @IPS_Infection. Winner of BJN IPC Nurse o/t Year 2017. Gardener, dog lover. Posts represent my own views!

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Healthcare Infection Society @hisinfection.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Great start to #HISCON25 with Dame Judith Hackitt on systems thinking in complex organisations. From Grenfell to the NHS, she urged a shift from box-ticking to culture change, resilience, and collaboration. A powerful call for proactive safety and accountability.
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Pat Cattini Silvester @patcs66.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
@hisinfection.bsky.social As usual Mike Weinbren talks so much sense. We need to learn from our construction errors.
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Pat Cattini Silvester @patcs66.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
An overview of #OneTogether resources by @XuerebD including the new #SSIsurveilance tool and the updated pathway poster. #OneTogether2025
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Pat Cattini Silvester @patcs66.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Wow! Exciting new study presented by @melissa_rochon #OneTogether2025. Need system wide change to create better digital wound monitoring that meets patient expectation and make meaningful reduction in SSI
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Pat Cattini Silvester @patcs66.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Great to be at the #OneTogether2025 expert conference. Packed room as Bill Kilvington opens the event. Looking forward to introducing our new surveillance resource and showcase work we are doing @UHSussex
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Pat Cattini Silvester @patcs66.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I can’t believe #Trumps plans for #TrumptonOnSea in Gaza. He is surely a madman!
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Journal of Hospital Infection @thejhi.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
🫀This review identified 123 preoperative predictors of SSI risk following cardiac surgery, 56 of which have not been previously included in the development of cardiac #SSI prediction models www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S019...
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Identifying potential predictors of surgical site infection risk following cardiac surgery: a scoping review
This scoping review was undertaken to identify risk predictions models and preoperative predictors of surgical site infection (SSI) in adult cardiac surgery. A particular focus was on the identificati...
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Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽 @superbugs.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Want to find out more about antibiotics? Want to do it in a fun way? Have you tried out our emoji quiz? #AMR #SciEd 🧫🦠🔬💊🐅🚴🏻‍♂️
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The Emoji Quiz — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us
What kind of antibiotics are there? What do they do? Which infections can be treated with them? Who discovered them? Are there bacteria resistant to them? And why do they have to have such complicated...
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Pat Cattini Silvester @patcs66.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
If Kier Starmer is serious about reducing waiting lists to 18 weeks (which would be brilliant), he CANNOT ignore social care. If we can’t discharge patients in a timely manner than we can’t take more through the door. #Simples
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Journal of Hospital Infection @thejhi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
🏥 Ventilation or aerosol extraction: Comparing the efficacy of directional air purifiers, HEPA evacuators, and negative pressure environments www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S019...
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Ventilation or Aerosol Extraction: Comparing the Efficacy of Directional Air Purifiers, HEPA Evacuators, and Negative Pressure Environments
This study evaluates aerosol exposure during various respiratory activities (breathing, tachypnea, coughing, and oxygen therapy) in environments with directional air purifiers (DAP), HEPA evacuators, ...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"
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European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
E coli are red S aureus are blue Hans Christian Gram Stained them for you
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NHS Million @nhsmillion.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
We wish we could eradicate ‘just a’ from NHS vocabulary. Every single person plays their part, and it couldn’t happen without everyone.
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Pat Cattini Silvester @patcs66.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
How do we know what to prepare for? Marion Koopmans #FISHIS24 Pandemic planning needs early recognition and action.
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martinll.bsky.social @martinll.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
What an amazing achievement the siren study is. www.gov.uk/guidance/sir... exemplifies how the nhs is uniquely able to deliver infection research that needs big numbers and data connectivity. Dr Jas Islam #FISHIS “we’re lucky in the UK, we have the NHS”. @smhopkins.bsky.social
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SIREN study
Providing vital research into COVID-19 immunity and vaccine effectiveness nationally.
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Pat Cattini Silvester @patcs66.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Jasmin Islam #FISHIS24 talks about important lessons from pandemic planning. Favourite point is collaboration!
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Pat Cattini Silvester @patcs66.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#FISHIS24 Bridging the research gap. Nigel Saunders from Genpax. Use Nike principles - Just do it! Amazing research career! 3 golden rules: So what? Solve the solvable. Do you care? If yes do it.
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Rajeka Lazarus (she/her) @rajlaz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
“if you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got” with visionary thinker Mike Simmons #FISHIS24
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Pat Cattini Silvester @patcs66.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Ready for our session on Bridging the research Gap #FISHIS24
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Pat Cattini Silvester @patcs66.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Dan Pan asks how effective are or protective behaviours in reducing staff acquisition of covid? #FISHIS24 Fascinating! Mist isolating factors associated with deterioration in mental health. Those who took up recommendations less likely to be vaccine hesitant.
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Pat Cattini Silvester @patcs66.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#FISHIS24 great session with some real world IPC.
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Pat Cattini Silvester @patcs66.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Great to see Alistair Yeoh presenting work from UHSussex demonstrating how we are using whole genome sequencing in conjunction with @Genpax @james-r-price.bsky.social #FISHIS24
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Pat Cattini Silvester @patcs66.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Great talk from Edward Hepworth. CNS at Clatterbridge recognising risks from plumbing tools in CPE transmission.
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Rajeka Lazarus (she/her) @rajlaz.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It was a privilege to chair this brainchild of @james-r-price.bsky.social alongside side @emrsa15.bsky.social @patcs66.bsky.social @eimeartb.bsky.social and our industry presenters.
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Pat Cattini Silvester @patcs66.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Really enjoyed channelling my inner @deborahmeaden.bsky.social for our #FISHIS24 Dragons Den. Thanks to fellow dragons @emrsa15.bsky.social @eimeartb.bsky.social @rajlaz.bsky.social.
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PJP🇨🇦🇨🇦 @patpia.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Anti vaccine is pro polio, pro diphtheria, pro pertussis, pro measles and pro any other debilitating and deadly vaccine preventable disease .Got it??
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Pat Cattini Silvester @patcs66.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Really enjoyed sharing our IPC learning today especially during Antimicrobial Awareness Week.
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Healthcare Infection Society @hisinfection.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
What a fantastic turn out for the IPC to protect the #planet as well as people 🌍 Participants contributed to developing a toolkit to improve the quality and #environmental #sustainability of #IPC practice. #FISHIS24
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James Price @james-r-price.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Fantastic showcase of the IPC research taking place @BSMS and @UHSussex. Great work team! #FISHIS24
Sid Mookerjee’s scoping review of prediction tools reducing HCAIsYemi Makanjuola’s systematic review on use of UV-C to decontaminate equipment to support decarbonising healthcare Jack Leach’s work highlighting the findings of S. aureus WGS surveillance, challenging our assumptions on virulence factor prevalenceElla Kollstad’s systematic review of factors involved in UTI and transgender individuals
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Pat Cattini Silvester @patcs66.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Brilliant talk from Margaret Vos from Erasmus in Netherlands #FISHIS24. Fascinating insights into vagaries of hospital design. Lots of conflicting areas that complicate things further.
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Martin Kiernan @emrsa15.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Moi Lin Ling from Singapore giving the Lowbury Lecture #FISHIS24 stressing the big differences between an Influencer and a change agent. Invest in building relationships and learn to use the data that you have #IPSky
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Pat Cattini Silvester @patcs66.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Lisa Ridgeway introduces this year’s Lowbury Lecture from Prof Moi Lin Ling #FISConf24 The IPC professional as a change agent.
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Pat Cattini Silvester @patcs66.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Looking forward contributing to #FIS/HIS24 in Liverpool led by @james-r-price.bsky.social fisconference.org
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Join us at the FIS Conference, the ultimate gathering for professionals in infection prevention and control, infectious diseases, clinical microbiology, and biomedical science. Explore cutting-edge re...
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