The programme will allow the sharing of experience and knowledge of IPC aspects of services and infrastructure.

TOPICS COVERED TO INCLUDE

• Bringing IPC and AMS together: Can we make it work?
• In-house vs externally contracted services: How to ensure quality and when to reconfigure the service
• What should the water safety group be doing to ensure patient safety whilst being cost effective?
• What happens when a trust fails to deliver safe water?
• Setting up a ventilation safety committee
• Procedures, ventilation and risk: What can you get away with?

The programme will include speaker presentations and interactive online discussion sessions.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Anyone with a leadership role in IPC. They may be DIPCs, medical consultants, nurses, non-clinical managers, clinical scientists, allied health professional lead, or come from other backgrounds.

SPEAKERS

• Kieran Hand, AMR National Clinical Lead for Pharmacy & Prescribing, NHS England
• Neil Alexander, Senior Safety Investigator, Health Services Safety Investigations Body
• Michael Weinbren, Consultant Microbiologist and Infection Control Doctor, Sherwood Forest NHS Foundation Trust
• Tim Wafer, Technical & Compliance Director and Authorising Engineer of Water & Chlorine dioxide, and CEO of The Water Solutions Group
• Andrew Poplett, Healthcare Estates Consultant
• Peter Hoffman, Retired Consultant Clinical Scientist
• David Enoch, Consultant Microbiologist, UK Health Security Agency, and Infection Control Doctor, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge
• Mark Garvey, Consultant Clinical Scientist in Microbiology and DIPC, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
• Trevor Garcia, Chair of The Institute of Decontamination Sciences

For more information, please contact: [email protected]