Don't panic! programme
29 November 2023
Available soon - download a PDF of the programme and abstract book
| 09:25 – 09:30 | Welcome and introduction | Jincy Jerry, Assistant Director of Nursing, Infection Prevention & Control, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital |
| Future directions in IPC | ||
| 09:30 - 10:00 | IPC as a discipline: where are we going? |
Sue Millward, IPC Clinical Lead in Education, NHS England, National IPC Team Dave Cunningham, Clinical Lead for Workforce and Leadership, NHS England, National IPC Team |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | IPC in practice: balancing the social and the technical | Julie Storr, Global Health Consultant, KS Healthcare Consulting; and Past President of the UK & Ireland Infection Prevention Society |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | HCAI: How much can we prevent and how hard should we try? | Gonzalo Bearman, Chair of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA |
| 11:00 - 11:25 | Break | |
| Session 2 - Surgical site infection | ||
| 11:25 - 11:50 |
PreciSSIon - a collaborative initiative to reduce surgical site infection after elective colorectal surgery |
Anne Pullyblank, Consultant Colorectal surgeon, North Bristol NHS Trust |
| 11:50 - 12:15 | Post-discharge surveillance: Is image-based digital measuring the way forward? |
Melissa Rochon, Trust Lead for SSI Surveillance, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust |
| 12:15 - 12:35 | Why bundles don't work | Judith Tanner, Professor in Adult Nursing, University of Nottingham |
| 12:35 - 12:40 | Promoting Surgical site infection prevention day initiatives |
Lilian Chiwera, Independent Surgical Site Infection Surveillance & Prevention Consultant |
| 12:40 - 13:40 | Lunch | |
| 13:40 | Afternoon welcome | |
| Updated HIS guidelines review | ||
| 13:40 - 14:05 | Norovirus |
Eamonn Trainor, Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust |
| 14:05 - 14:30 | Rituals and behaviours in the operating theatre | Peter Wilson, Honorary Consultant Microbiologist, University College London Hospitals |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Break | |
| IPC and the environment | ||
| 14:50 - 15:20 | Environmental sampling practices of innate hospital surfaces | Professor Hilary Humphreys, Consultant Microbiologist, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Shedding a light on ultraviolet-C technologies in the hospital environment | Mark Garvey, Consultant Clinical Scientist in Microbiology, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Air scrubbing technologies in healthcare and their evaluation | Dr David Enoch, Consultant Microbiologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |