Sara Mumford is Director of Infection Prevention and Control, Deputy Medical Director and Consultant Microbiologist at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW). Sara studied medicine at St Bartholomew’s hospital and did her specialist training at Charing Cross and St George’s Hospitals and Ashford Public Health Laboratory
Sara became Consultant Microbiologist at Ashford Public Health Laboratory in 1999 and subsequently moved to Kent Health Protection Unit as Consultant in Communicable Disease Control in 2004. Whilst at Kent HPU she advised MTW on the investigation and management of the outbreak of C.difficile in 2005/6 which was the subject of a highly critical Healthcare Commission report in October 2007. In November 2007, Sara took up the post of DIPC at MTW and has led the improvements which have seen a 96% reduction (compared with 2005/6) in C.difficile cases to 7.4/100 000 bed days, earning recognition from the Trust Development Authority (now NHSI) as an exemplar site for infection prevention. Over the last nine Sara has expanded her medical management skills in a number of roles and took up the post of Deputy Medical Director in December 2018 always maintaining her primary interest in infection prevention and control