COVID-19 elimination in New Zealand: Could it work in the UK?

The first seminar in the Let’s Talk COVID-19 series, where Professor Michael Baker discusses New Zealand's experience with Covid-19 elimination. Speaker: Professor Michael Baker, Professor of Public Health, and acting Head of the Department of Public Health at the University of Otago. Discussant: Professor Martin McKee, Professor of European Public Health, LSHTM, and Director Research Policy European Observatory Chair: Professor Neil Pearce, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, LSHTM.

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IPC Introduction

Introduction presentation slides

Triage et Circuit du Patient

Triage et Circuit du Patient presentation slides

EPI por COVID-19

EPI por COVID-19 presentation slides

Isolement et en mise en cohorte

Isolement et en mise en cohorte presentation slides

Nettoyage de l’environnement

Nettoyage de l’environnement presentation slides

Pulverisation de l'environnement presentation slides

La PCI dans la communaute

La PCI dans la communaute presentation slides

Assessing IPC preparedness

Environmental hygiene and waste management

IPC in the community

Safe handling of dead bodies

COVID-19 and transport

  

1.1 IPC Introduction: Overview and Preparedness

Objectives:

  • Convening an IPC team to respond to COVID. 
  • Conducting audits and needs assessments. 
  • How to identify a key priorities within a health facility.

IPC Introduction: Overview and Preparedness Presentation Slides

1.2 Triage and patient flow

Objectives:

  • Protecting health facilities.
  • Entry screening, monitoring during the patient journey. 
  • Applying case definitions, managing visitors and family carers.


Triage and patient flow Presentation Slides

1.3 Personal Protective Equipment for COVID

Objectives:

  • Role of each element of PPE.
  • Relevant standards and specifications.
  • Techniques to minimise need for PPE using engineering and administrative controls. 

Personal Protective Equipment for COVID presentation slides

1.4 Isolation and cohorting                                               

Objectives:

  • Principles of Isolation and Cohorting.
  • How to institute isolation and cohorting in different health care settings
  • How to adapt existing health facilities to minimise risk of transmission

Isolation and cohorting presentation slides

1.5 Environmental Hygiene                                        

Objectives:

  • Role of fomites in transmission of COVID
  • Materials and techniques for cleaning and disinfection.
  • Techniques for training and support for cleaning and ancillary staff.

Environmental Hygiene presentation slides

Cleaning Best Practices presentation slides

Environmental Spraying presentation slides

Disinfectant tunnels pdf 

1.6 Infection Control Measures in the community

Objectives:

  • Messaging and Risk Communications.
  • Countering misinformation
  • Refugee Camps and Informal Settlements.


Risk communication and countering misinformation presentation slides