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COVID19 – working together to urgently improve infection control in Care Homes

April 23, 2020 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Free

Eric Fewster & Dr David Tomlinson will deliver this webinar.

Based on independently developed advice and guidance published here:

https://www.bushproof.com/care-homes-strategy-for-infection-prevention-control-of-covid-19-based-on-clear-delineation-of-risk-zones/

This webinar seeks to share enhanced guidance to better prevent transmission of Covid-19 in care homes. Please join us to discuss the potential for urgent application in UK care homes.

The webinar is intended for

– those who have loved ones in care homes and who are able to get in direct contact with care home managers to share this guidance
– those who don’t have family members in care homes, but who may be passionate about improving conditions in care homes by sharing the guidance with local MPs & local public health office officials.

The enhanced guidance has been written by:

Eric Fewster, MSc, C.WEM, CEnv, Independent Water & Environmental Manager, Salford, UK (webinar presenter)
With contributions / review from:
Dr David R Tomlinson, BM, BSc, MD, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Plymouth, UK (webinar presenter)
Jean-François Fesselet, MSc, WatSan Unit Coordinator, MSF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr Sarah House, D.Litt, CEng, MICE, C.WEM, FCIWEM, Independent WASH / Public Health Engineer
Michaël R. Laurent, MD, PhD, Geriatrician, Imelda Hospital, Bonheiden, Belgium
Adelina Comas-Herrera, MSc, Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, Care Policy & Evaluation Research Centre (CPEC), London School of Economics & Political Science, UK, Editor of LTCcovid.org

The author and reviewers collectively have a mix of experience from medicine/health, care homes, water/sanitation/hygiene, outbreak infection prevention & control (specifically from Ebola and cholera outbreaks) and emergency response.

Dr David Tomlinson, Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist with the University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust. David spent initially spent two summers working in a local care home, and since then has worked with the elderly throughout his career (25 years in the NHS as of August this year). His interest in this strategy document for prevention of Covid-19 in care homes comes from being an advocate for safe and effective evidence-based healthcare.

 

Eric Fewster, Passivhaus Consultant, a Chartered Water and Environmental Manager and Chartered Environmentalist

Eric is a Passivhaus Consultant, a Chartered Water and Environmental Manager and Chartered Environmentalist. For the past 20 years, his ‘day job’ mostly involved water supply & sanitation in low-income countries during which time he helped to co-found BushProof, an award-winning business based in Madagascar. After gaining experience through carrying out a deep retrofit on his own house between 2008-2010, he decided to retrain as a Passivhaus Consultant in order to help other homeowners struggling to do the same – this he does through his business ColdProof, which offers energy analysis, thermal bridge modelling, costing and project management. Eric is passionate about the need for retrofit in the UK – he knows that it’s a huge challenge with seemingly insurmountable obstacles, but knows that despite this it must happen nevertheless! This has been his motivation for helping Carbonlite to develop their Passivhaus Tradesperson course, which is an essential tool for training up building contractors in low energy construction.

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Date:
April 23, 2020
Time:
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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