In our second live session at a major conference, this episode of Infection Control Matters was recorded live at a plenary session to close day 1 of the Infection Prevention Society conference (Birmingham, UK). Our guest panelists include Dr Berit Muller-Pebody an Epidemiologist from the UK Health Security Agency, Prof Jennie Wilson from the University of West London and Dr Jacqui Prieto from The University of Southampton. The panel also fielded many questions from delegates from the floor.

Topics covered include the role of mandatory surveillance, de-implementation, community based IPC, point prevalence studies, the UK PPS,  fundamentals of care, urinary tract infection, pneumonia and the direction of IPC.