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Best practice standards for the delivery of NHS infection services in the United Kingdom

Natasha V.D.V. Ratnaraja, Angharad Davies Orcid Logo, Bridget L. Atkins, Rishi Dhillon, Nikunj Mahida, Samuel Moses, Joanne Herman, Anna Checkley, David Partridge, Martin J. Llewelyn

Clinical Infection in Practice, Volume: 12, Start page: 100095

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.clinpr.2021.100095

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Infection expertise in the NHS has historically been provided predominantly by hospital-based medical microbiologists responsible for provision of diagnostic services and advice to front-line clinicians. While most hospitals had consultant-led microbiology departments, infectious iiseases department...

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