Queen Elizabeth Kings Lynn CLIENT: Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust PROJECT DETAILS: Legionella Control Gap Analysis NIFES ROLE: Assess the Control of Legionella bacteria in the Hospitals water systems Background Queen Elizabeth Hospital is a large acute hospital sited in, Kings Lynn, Norfolk. It has many complicated and integrated water systems, which fall under the required control of legislation and the Healthcare Technical Memorandums (HTM’S). The hospital provides services for a wide spectrum of patients from high dependency; immunosuppressed to day patients and A&E services. The water systems require an assessment of risk and an application of control. Approach NIFES initially quantified the systems at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in 2009 which fell under the control of legi

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