Registration and coffee/tea

Chair: Dr Surabhi Taori, Consultant Microbiologist, NHS Lothian, Scotland

Why guidance and compliance do not deliver, the cost to society and the need for a change in culture

Dr Michael Weinbren, Consultant Medical Microbiologist and Specialist Advisor Microbiology,
New Hospital Programme

How to change the culture of the design and construction process – putting the patient at the front and centre of everything we do

George McCracken, Head of Estates Risk and Environment, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

Q&A with Michael Weinbren and George McCracken

Sharing knowledge and learning from mistakes - interactive session

Overview of the New Hospital Programme

Cheryl Riotto, RN MSc, Deputy Clinical Director, New Hospital Programme

Coffee and tea

Sustainability and NHS plan for net zero – IPC experience in the Balfour, NHS Orkney, the first UK hospital built to net-zero

Dr Becky Wilson, Consultant Microbiologist and Infection Prevention and Control Doctor, NHS Orkney

Difficulties from an infection prevention and control perspective encountered from hospital design and incorporation of new technologies designed to be energy saving in new builds and refurbishments

Dr Donald Inverarity, Lead ICD, NHS Lothian

The IPC risk assessment process for building

Lunch and exhibition

Chair: Dr Joanna Walker Consultant Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and IPC Doctor, Scotland

Discussion – a default to 100% single rooms design for NHS inpatients - implications and considerations

Joost Hopman, Clinical Microbiologist / Medical Director, Radboud University Medical Center

Chair: Dr Luke Moore

Dr Timothy Neal, Director for Infection Prevention and Control, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The role of the new built environment in the dispersal of healthcare associated pathogens and how to mitigate

Dr Shanom Ali, Clinical Microbiology, UCLH Environmental Research Laboratory - UCLH NHS Foundation Trust, Associate Professor of Microbiology - UCL

Case studies part 1

Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow ''Problems after the big opening"

New kids … in the water (M.abscessus outbreak in the UK hospital)

Dr Christine Peters, Consultant Clinical Microbiologist, Glasgow

Dr Olly Allen, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Comfort break

Case studies part 2 - panel discussion

Help needed: some cases for a troubled microbiologist

Problem with multi-resistant Pseudomonas on an ITU/HDU

Dr David Enoch, Consultant Microbiologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Tim Boswell, Consultant Microbiologist, Nottingham University Hospitals