Welcome and Introduction

Jincy Jerry, Director of Infection Prevention and Control, NHS Ayrshire and Arran, Scotland

Keynote Presentation | Advancing surveillance of HCAIs: Focus of VAP

Top 10 IPC publications of the year -  A curated review of most influential studies & the impact on frontline IPC practice

Dr Gemma Winzor, Editor-in-Chief, Infection Prevention in Practice

Dr Martyn Wilkinson, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Hospital Infection

Ongoing and upcoming clinical trials in IPC - Global IPC trends and lessons  from WHO guidelines

Dr Walter Zingg, Senior Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Universitätsspital Zürich, Switzerland

Ethics & IPC: Balancing Autonomy with Control Measures

Panel Discussion

• Perspectives from England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland
• Key surveillance insights
• New national initiatives

Colin Brown, Deputy Director, Clinical and Emerging Infections, UKHSA    

   Other presenters to be announced

16:20 - 17:00

• CLABSI surveillance
• Automating/semi-automating IPC surveillance
• Wastewater surveillance for developing pathogen forecasting systems

Panel Discussion

What do surveillance insights mean for IPC practice in the next year

Drinks reception & poster presentations

Keynote Presentation | Climate Change & Emerging Pathogens (implications to IPC  in healthcare)  

Prof Hugh Montgomery, Consultant Intensivist, UCL and Director, Real Zero, UK

• Research trials including vaccines to prevent AMR and AMS 
• How to develop a strategy for AMR and AMS?
• AMR - Diagnostics

14:45 - 16:00

• Novel Antimicrobial Stewardship Models
• AMR in intensive care
• AMR data in conflict areas