Investing in the future: quality improvement and education - programme

 

09:30

Welcome and introduction

 

 

Chair

09:35 - 10:05

Why healthcare leaders should embrace quality improvement?

 

Andrea Cortes, Improvement Deputy Director, Quality Improvement and Innovation Team, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

10:05 - 10:35

 

Leadership behaviours for QI

 

Sonia Nosheen, Assistant Director, NHS Confederation Acute Network

10:35 - 11:05

 

A new approach to quality in healthcare

 

 

Peter Lachman, International Lead Faculty, Leadership Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

11:05 - 11:30

 

Break

 

 

 

 

11:30 - 12:00

 

Beyond IPC: equipping your IPC workforce to educate and change others - what training and skills do they need?

 

  Martin Kiernan, Clinical Fellow, Richard Wells Research Centre, University of West London

12:00 - 12:30

 

After Action Reviews – could IPC benefit from collective learning?

 

 

Judy Walker, Judy Walker Associates

12:30 - 13:00

 

Leadership perspective on the implementation of guidelines on healthcare-associated infections

 

 

Josephine Hegarty, Professor of Nursing, University College Cork

 

13:00 - 13:45

 

Lunch

 

   

13:45 - 14:15

 

 

 

Challenges of maintaining preparedness to handle uncommon events (such as HCID)

 

Speaker to be confirmed

14:15 - 14:45

 

Advancing outbreak simulation training in IPC

 

 

Teresa Inkster, Consultant Microbiologist & Infection Control Doctor, ARHAI Scotland

 

14:45 - 15:15

Low dose/High frequency in situ-simulation in IPC

 

Akan Otu, Infectious Diseases Consultant, Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

 

15:15 - 15:30

Break

 

 

 

15:30 - 16:00

 

Quality Improvement as applied to SSI

 

Speaker to be confirmed

 

16:00 - 16:30

What QI actually gets implemented: when, why & how?

 

 

Speaker to be confirmed