On the occasion of the 16th European Health Forum Gastein, ECDC hosted a lunch workshop with the title “Healthcare-associated infections: time to take responsibility”.
In December 2012, the TRICE-IS project (Implementation of a training strategy for Infection Control in the European Union) started as a next step in ECDC’s support to national training programmes for infection control and hospital hygiene (IC/HH).
The annual meeting of the healthcare-associated infections surveillance network (HAI-Net) and of the HAI-Net coordination group took place in Stockholm on 19-21 June 2012.