IPC Training Day - Behaviour change, quality improvement and leadership

11 June 2026

 

10:00 - 10:05 Welcome and introduction Chair
10:05 - 10:30 Leadership and use of audit in training

Martin Kiernan, University of West London

10:30 – 11:10

Quality improvement in healthcare

Peter Lachman, Lead Faculty Quality Improvement Programme, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

11:10 - 11:30 Break

 

11:30 - 12:05

Human factors in infection prevention and control

James Tomlinson, Consultant Spinal Surgeon and Clinical Lead for Human Factors, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals

12:05 - 12:40

Leadership behaviours for quality improvement

Andrea Cortes, Improvement Deputy Director for Quality Improvement and Innovation, King's College Hospital, UK

12:40 - 13:30

Lunch

 

13:30 - 14:05

IPC and integration into WASH and other health quality of care programmes’

Doris Bota, Regional & Global Health Systems and Infection Prevention Ambassador

14:05 - 14:40 Role of law and guidelines in effecting quality improvement and behaviour change 

Robert Wheeler, University Hospital Southampton

14:40- 15:00 Break  
15:00 - 15:35

Environmental sustainability in IPC

Jennifer Collins, World Health Organisation

15:35 - 15:40

Summary and close

 Chair