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What happens when nurses, who are global health experts, and social scientists, and game designers/software developers come together to tackle one of healthcare’s oldest and most persistent challenges? They build an alien hospital. Set 200 years in the future, My 5 Moments: The Game transports players into an international, intergalactic hospital where they must navigate increasingly complex clinical situations, make

The football, or more widely known, soccer World Cup has acted as a stimulus to reflect on some work we’ve done on infection prevention and control (IPC) across a range of healthcare settings. Work to strengthen IPC programmes, specifically while understanding what enables progress and success through an approach to: When you look at a soccer match – clips on

Written by Claire Kilpatrick For over 10 years I have been fascinated with the words, indeed the language, we use in infection prevention and control (IPC). I channelled that interest into a multi country project where we tested some of the commonly used words in hand hygiene improvement, and have both published and presented on this (winning an innovation award,

A blog by Claire Kilpatrick, Director at S3 Global Health, Global Health Consultant There are a lot of “activities” that take place within an infection prevention and control (IPC) programme. A significant proportion of these activities are ultimately aimed at behaviour change; ensuring people implement guidance consistently and in a sustained manner to prevent infection. IPC teams lead the way

By Jules Storr “When I asked the doctor if he had cleaned his hands, he looked at me as if I had two heads. I thought I was going to have a heart attack – but I forced myself to ask.” That quote has stayed with me for years. It comes from a patient involved in an early hand hygiene

Not merely the absence of disease I read a book a while ago that reminded me of something I hadn’t thought about in any depth for many years. It recalled the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) definition of health, taken from its Constitution – “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of

A recent blog post on LinkedIn about strategising resonated with me. The blog was by Nick Bartlett and the title was Hot Trends Aren’t Strategy: How to Lead with Vision in 2026. You can probably guess by the title that it’s not about infection prevention and control (IPC) or even health care, but the following points made me think differently

Sixteen blogs, eight countries, seven key themes and six impactful areas of work. As 2025 draws to a close, we have reflected on what has been widely considered to be one of the most challenging years for many in global health. Yet, despite the difficulties, it has also been a year defined by resilience, creativity, and collective energy. The talent,

By Jules Storr Origins of Clean Care is Safer Care In 2005, I was part of the original team that launched the first Global Patient Safety Challenge: Clean Care is Safer Care. Led by the World Health Organization (WHO), it was an ambitious and, at the time, unprecedented initiative in the field of patient safety and infection prevention and control (IPC).