Time

Main Auditorium

Queens Suite 1

Queens Suite 2

09.00

House keeping and general event information

09.05

Conference opening

Martin Kiernan, IPS President

09.10

Session 1

Fifty years of resistance

Professor Gary French, Consultant Microbiologist, King's College/Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital, London

(This is an IPS teleclass)

09.50

IPS Annual General Meeting

All IPS members welcome

10.20

Refreshments, Exhibition Viewing & Poster Viewing

11.10

Session 2

CSI healthcare - examining the clues to HAIs

Mary Andrus, Infection Preventionist - Consultant, Surveillance Solutions Worldwide, Inc. USA

11.50

Session 3

The cost of MRSA prevention-good value for money

Professor Hilary Humphreys, Professor and Consultant, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Beaumont Hospital

12.30

Lunch, Exhibition Viewing & Guided Poster Walk

13.45 - 14.45

Session 5

Epidemiology in practice - Workshop session

Mary Andrus, Infection Preventionist - Consultant, Surveillance Solutions Worldwide, Inc. USA

Session 6

New to infection prevention and control?  River deep, mountain high ...does this sound familiar within your new role?

Top ten tips for survival - Workshop session

Yvonne Hanson, Infection Prevention and Control Matron, Kirklees PCT

14.50

Session 7

Making an impact on patient safety, every single moment

Claire Kilpatrick, Programme Manager / Technical Officer, 1st Global Patient Safety Challenge, WHO

Julie Storr, Project Manager, National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA)

15.30

Refreshments, Exhibition Viewing & Poster Viewing

16.10

Session 8

From disasters to safe IV systems
Evonne Curran, Nurse Consultant Infection Control, Health Protection Scotland

16.50

Session 9

The Annual Ayliffe Lecture 

MRSA in care homes - a reflection of hospitals or the community?
Professor Mark Wilcox, Consultant / Clinical Director of Microbiology, Leeds General Infirmary

17.30

Official Exhibition opening reception

18.30

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