Agenda item

18 March 2015

C) European Study Group for Legionella Infections Conference

The European Study Group for Legionella Infections (ESGLI) is a group which shares information and best practice on the recognition and control of legionella infections, both in clinical and environmental settings. The City of London Corporation has close links with ESGLI, as legionella is a potential risk in the City owing to the proliferation of wet cooling towers. The City’s Environmental Health Department carries out training for other local authorities and has also organised European training courses with ESGLI to help ensure that outbreaks of legionnaire’s disease are investigated to the same standard across Europe.

The third ESGLI Conference is due to take place at the Barbican Centre on 16 and 17 September 2015. It is usual for the host city to provide some form of hospitality prior to the event to mark the start of the conference.

We therefore recommend that hospitality be granted in the form of an early evening reception, to be held on Friday 15 September 2015 with arrangements to be made under the auspices of the Port Health and Environmental Services Committee; the cost to be met from City’s Cash and within the approved cost parameters.

This would be a Committee event.

18 March 2015

(C) European Study Group for Legionella Infections Conference

The European Study Group for Legionella Infections (ESGLI) is a group which shares information and best practice on the recognition and control of legionella infections, both in clinical and environmental settings. The City of London Corporation has close links with ESGLI, as legionella is a potential risk in the City owing to the proliferation of wet cooling towers. The City’s Environmental Health Department carries out training for other local authorities and has also organised European training courses with ESGLI to help ensure that outbreaks of legionnaire’s disease are investigated to the same standard across Europe.

The third ESGLI Conference is due to take place at the Barbican Centre on 16 and 17 September 2015. It is usual for the host city to provide some form of hospitality prior to the event to mark the start of the conference.

We therefore recommend that hospitality be granted in the form of an early evening reception, to be held on Friday 15 September 2015 with arrangements to be made under the auspices of the Port Health and Environmental Services Committee; the cost to be met from City’s Cash and within the approved cost parameters.

This would be a Committee event.

Read and agreed.