Training
HELICS-associated Networks
Information is available on the websites of the HELICS networks. A selection of those
showing material used for training and other information of use to those networks establishing surveillance is presented here.
- First results of the the data validation study carried out by the Epidemiology Unit of the Scientific Institute of Public Health in Belgium in the National Surveillance of Infections in Hospitals (NSIH) programme are presented in their website.
- The Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections in the Netherlands (PREZIES) has a version of their website in English, providing general information about this network.
- The Surgical Site Infection Surveillance Service in England is described on the website of the Health Protection Agency (HPA). Included is the report on the Surveillance of Surgical Site Infections in English hospitals 1997-2002.
- See copies of the first editions of both the Northern Ireland Orthopaedic Surveillance Report and the Pan Celtic Orthopaedic Surveillance Report in the Publications section of the Northern Ireland Healthcare Associated Infection Surveillance Centre
(HISC) website.
- The Scottish Surveillance of Healthcare Associated Infection Programme (SSHAIP) offers;
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Frequently Asked Questions and Further Reading
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Training (presentations from seminars)
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HAI Surveillance Newsletters
Select 'HAI & Infection Control' and 'SSHAIP' on the website of the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health.
- Information about the Welsh Healthcare Associated Infection Programme (WHAIP) and some Q&A's are available by selecting 'Surveillance Programme' on the
WHAIP website.