title: Collective efforts, better engagement.
abstract: In this article, Dr Mike Simmons, Public Health Microbiologist at Public Health Wales, and the clinical lead for Public Health Wales Microbiology Services to the Hywel Dda Health Board, examines and explains healthcare-associated infections, or HCAls. He also highlights some of the key implications for healthcare engineers and estates managers in their day-to-day roles, and stresses the importance of interaction and collaboration between estates professionals and their clinical, infection control, nursing, and other hospital counterparts, in both reducing the number of such infections, and creating environments unconducive to their spread.
authors.forename: Mike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Simmons
mesh_terms: D003428:Cross Infection / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital / Q000382:microbiology / Q000592:standards; D006272:Health Facility Environment / Q000592:standards*; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction / Q000592:standards*; D006797:Housekeeping, Hospital / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D007902:Length of Stay; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000193:education; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control; D014852:Wales