Worries with the (hospital) water works programme
14 May 2019
09:00 – 09:30 | Registration and refreshments |
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09:30 – 09:35 | Welcome and introduction |
Dr David Harvey, Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust |
09:35 – 10:05 |
Critical control points for water management in augmented care areas |
Dr Michael Weinbren, Sherwood Forest NHS Foundation Trust Biography |
10:05 – 10:30 | NICU – a 7yr experience of sinks and Pseudomonas Abstract |
Dr Anand Kamalanathan, Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust |
10:30 – 10:55 |
Screening for Pseudomonas aeruginosa in NICU: does it help reduce infection in neonates? |
Dr Elizabeth Darley, North Bristol NHS Trust Biography |
10:55 – 11:15 |
Coffee and tea |
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11:15 – 11:40 |
Critical care be Pseudomonas aware |
Dr Mark Garvey, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Biography |
11:40 – 12:05 |
Legionella – pitfalls to temperature monitoring |
Dr Tim Boswell, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Biography |
12:05 – 12:30 |
Practical aspects of sampling water in the hospital setting |
Dr Ken Agwuh, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Biography |
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch and poster session | |
13:30 – 13:45 |
Selected oral communication: Automated electrochemically activated solution treatment minimises contamination of hospital washbasin u-bends |
Elaine Moloney, Microbiology Unit, Dublin Dental University Hospital |
13:45 – 14:00 |
Selected oral communication: A non-systematic review on healthcare associated infections: risks and outbreaks associated with water systems |
Garazi Ruiz-de-Azua Unzurrunzaga, Health Protection Scotland |
14:00 – 14:25 |
Sinks, pipes, drains and showers: the physics of microbial exposure through splashes and aerosols |
Professor Catherine Noakes, School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds Biography |
14:25 – 14:50 |
What’s lurking in hospital waste traps and does it matter? |
Ginny Moore, Biosafety, air and water microbiology group, Public Health England Biography |
14:50 – 15:05 | Coffee and tea |
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15:05 – 15:30 |
Water risk assessments – the role of the Water Safety Group |
Elise Maynard, Independent consultant, water and medical devices Biography |
15:30 – 16:15 |
Keynote lecture |
Dr Joost Hopman, Radboud University Medical Centre |
16:15 |
Close |
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