Clinical negligence • Failure to diagnose and delayed diagnosis • Geriatric medicine - falls, frailty, delirium, medication errors, polypharmacy • General internal medicine - complex multi-morbidity, sepsis, acute medical admissions, hospital-acquired complications, including infections, falls, pressure ulcers, hospital-acquired thromboembolism • Substandard care in acute and long-term care settings • Acute medical conditions, including sepsis

Microbiology • Infection • Hygiene • Infection control • Hospital-acquired infection • Post-op infection • Device-related infection • Occupational infections Hospital ventilation • Hospital maintenance • Healthcare (clinical) waste microbiology • Healthcare (clinical) waste management and disposal • Environmental microbiology, with particular regard to waste disposal