Speakers:
Prof Barry Cookson, Director of Healthcare Associated Infections, Health Protection Agency
Dr Alison Holmes, Director of Infection Prevention and Control, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr Didier Pittet, Professor of Medicine and Director, Infection Control Programme
As the fight against hospital-acquired infections continues, scientists brief journalists on how the lab and the hospital can join up their thinking in the battle against bugs including hand hygeine regimes, NHS reform and the effects of antibiotic prescribing.