Peter Whawell

Peter is the CEO of Proxximos

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How big an issue are infections in care homes?

Infection rates Infection rates in care homes run at abou...

Infection rates Infection rates in care homes run at about 11% of residents according to a point prevalence survey, and 10% of residents were on antibiotics[i],vi. The infections being treated were respiratory tract infections (35.1%), urinary tra...

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News

The re-emerging challenge of measles

We are pleased to introduce an insightful guest article o...

We are pleased to introduce an insightful guest article on the re-emergence of measles, authored by Rachel Thaxter, former Head of Infection Prevention & Control at Addenbrookes Hospital.  Rachel highlights the critical role of innovative wear...

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Proxximos Joins KQ Labs

We are excited to announce that Proxximos has been select...

We are excited to announce that Proxximos has been selected for the KQ Labs Accelerator run by The Francis Crick Institute  

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Academic Papers

Economic Cost of Hospital Acquired Infections

A study published in the British Medical Journey that exa...

A study published in the British Medical Journey that examined the economic cost of hospital acquired infections.  Important headlines are that hospital acquired infections account for 21% of NHS England's bed capacity due to overstaying patients....

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Academic Papers

Covid-19 transmission between people

An interactive model of Covid-19 transmission between two...

An interactive model of Covid-19 transmission between two people from The British Medical Journal.  This fantastic article contains an interactive model of the risk of transmission between two people.  The Proxximos system contains algorithms to m...

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Academic Papers

Proxximos precursor effectively eradicated Covid-19

Proxximos founders co-led a project in early 2020 to tria...

Proxximos founders co-led a project in early 2020 to trial digital contact tracing on the Isle of Wight, alongside other aspects of the UK Test and Trace system.  The results of this trial were studied by Oxford University and published by The Lan...

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Academic Papers

Beyond Omicron

A great article in Nature: Beyond Omicron: what’s next fo...

A great article in Nature: Beyond Omicron: what’s next for COVID’s viral evolution (nature.com).  The authors explain that we should expect Covid-19 to continue to through up new troubling variants for some time, and that some of the mutation leap...

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