IPC Training Day - Environmental aspects of IPC: risks and solutions

Programme is subject to change

10:00 - 10:05 Welcome Chair
10:05 - 10:40 Introduction to the healthcare environment Speaker to be confirmed
10:40 - 11:15

Back to basics - audit and training can make a difference at the ward level

Martin Kiernan, Visiting Clinical Fellow, University of West London

11:15 - 11:30 Break

 

11:30 - 12:05

P. aeruginosa, water and vulnerable patients

Speaker to be confirmed
12:05 - 12:40

What’s lurking in hospital waste traps and does it matter?

Speaker to be confirmed

12:40 - 13:40

Lunch

 

13:40 - 14:15

Introduction to Legionella in the healthcare environment

Sandra Lai,
Unit Head - Food Water & Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, UKHSA

14:15 - 14:50 Food safety in healthcare Speaker to be confirmed
14:50- 15:05 Break  
15:05 - 15:40 Ventilation principle - theatres and isolation Peter Hoffman, Retired
15:40 - 16:15 New technology in environmental decontamination David Enoch, Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Addenbrookes Hospital
16:15 - 16:20 Summary and close