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A collaboration between professionals in Microbiology and Infection Control serving West Wales

Wales the wonderful

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dinefwrbluebells This is a blatant plug to encourage you to consider coming, living and working in Wales.  I’ve been based in west Wales covering the counties of Carmarthen, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire since 1990.  While I did spend a fascinating 10 years working in Cardiff and gaining a new set of skills, my home has always been just outside Carmarthen.

Today was one of my days when I work from our hospital in Aberystwyth and it was one of those gorgeous spring days where I can enjoy seeing the red kites overhead as I drive along the coast road between Aberaeron and … Read the rest

Little things

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Urine labI have just completed my on-call week.  As many will know our working pattern means one consultant is first on service for a seven day period.  This ensures a degree of continuity when we receive calls and are dealing with the acute services.  In this role, we are the first point of contact for enquiries and I thought therefore I would reflect on a couple of the highlights.

Little Thing #1:

One of my local GP’s rang to ask for a urine sensitivity result.  I am always at pains to be as helpful as I possibly can when I … Read the rest

Gamekeeper turned Poacher

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Thank YouI had minor surgery today courtesy of the Day Care Unit in Prince Phillip Hospital. Thanks for asking, it was for a small umbilical hernia and all went well. However, the point of writing this is not to play the sympathy card but to take the opportunity to reflect on how I saw the unit work from a couple of perspectives: quality and infection, prevention and control because of course, professionally, these are two areas that engage a lot of my time.

It was interesting to be able to observe first hand our health systems in operation. Systems is key … Read the rest