Heartbeat: Hello my name is… Julie Booth Infection, Prevention and Control Lead

December 19, 2018

This month we welcome the newest addition to the SWBH family, Julie Booth, the new lead for infection prevention and control (IPC).

Julie joins the Trust with 32 years of experience in nursing gained after starting her training at Dudley Road Hospital in 1986 and going on to work in intermediate care at Leasowes.

After gaining her infection prevention and control qualifications at Birmingham City University, Julie has returned to our organisation to lead a merry band of six in IPC.

Heartbeat caught up with Julie to find out more about her new role and challenges.

She said: “My responsibilities are clear in that I’m focussed on delivering the IPC objectives of the Trust, but as a team of IPC nurses, our true objective first and foremost is maintaining patient safety and preventing avoidable infections.”

Keen to dispel one of the biggest myths about IPC, Julie joked: “It’s not all about the commodes, I want our IPC nurses to work alongside nursing colleagues in wards and departments as partners.

“We are all here to deliver safe patient care and we can only do that by working together, side by side, keeping the patients as our priority.”