The mission to reduce the incidence of surgical site infection continues to gain momentum, with a high impact programme of expert insights at this year’s OneTogether conference. CSJ provides an overview of this must-attend event.
Dedicated to reducing the risk of surgical site infections (SSIs), the OneTogether UK Expert Conference 2025 is taking place on the 6 March 2025 at the National Conference Centre, Birmingham. Organised as part of a partnership between the Infection Prevention Society, Central Sterilising Club, Association for Perioperative Practice, The College of Operating Department Practitioners and Solventum, the event brings together top experts to drive improvement.
SSIs account for 16% of healthcare associated infections and are associated with considerable morbidity, mortality and increased costs of care. Around 5% of all surgical patients develop an SSI and those patients that experience an infection are five times more likely to be readmitted and are twice as likely to die.1
Surveillance of SSIs in NHS hospitals in England (April 2023 to March 2024), by the UKHSA, shows that Enterobacterales continued to make up the highest proportion of causative organisms across all surgical categories for both superficial (29.9%) and deep or organ and space (30.1%) SSIs. Compared to the previous year, the proportion of SSIs caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) showed marginal increases for superficial (2.1% and 2.3%) infections and decreases for deep or organ and space infections (2.5% and 2.4%), while the proportion caused by meticillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) decreased for both superficial (17.3% and 15.9%) and deep or organ and space infections (18.4% and 17.2%.)2
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