Time

Main Auditorium

Breakout 1

Breakout 2

09.15

09.50

Session 35

Ayliffe Lecture

Preventing and controlling ESBLs, the future is here 

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

The objectives are to:

· Provide an overview of ESBLs
· Discuss the interface across hospitals and community
· Provide information on prevention and management strategies  

(This is an IPS Teleclass)

09.55-

10.30

Session 36

Surveying public perceptions around cleanliness in hospitals

Vanessa Whatley, Programme Specialist (HCAI), NHS West Midlands, Strategic Health Authority

The objectives are to:
- Explore the issues which drive the perceptions of the general public on hospital cleanliness
- Identify what action is needed to ensure efforts to change practice are translated into improved public perception
- Discuss the role of communication as an infection prevention strategy

Session 37

Free Papers x2

See the Free paper Section of the website for details on how to submit an abstract for free papers and posters

10.30

Refreshments and Exhibition Viewing

11.05 – 

11.40

Session 38

Surgical site infections: Are we doing enough? 

Dr Rabih O. Darouiche, VA Distinguished Service Professor and Director, Centre for Prostheses Infection, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

The objectives are to:

-Assess the impact of surgical site infection

-Address the pathogenesis of infection

-Analyse the efficacy of preventive approaches

Supported by an educational grant from CareFusion

Session 39

Dental decontamination

Serbjit Kaur, Head of Quality and Standards Dental and Eye Care, Department of Health and

Nigel Tomlinson, Principal Scientific Advisor, Department of Health (Estates and Facilities)

The objectives are to:

· Provide an overview of the decontamination survey results

- To examine the challenges faced by dental practices in compliance with HTM 0105
- Provide an overview of the dental audit tool to facilitate continuous quality improvement

11.45  - 12.20

Session 40

Using surveillance to change practice: overview

Jennie Wilson, Deputy Director Infection Prevention and Control, Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust

and

Professor Jacqui Reilly, Head of HAI and IC Group/Consultant Epidemiologist, Health Protection Scotland 

The objectives are to:  

-Understand the relevance of surveillance to preventing HCAI

-Appreciate the evolving agenda for HCAI surveillance in the UK

-Recognise the significance of developments in HCAI surveillance in the European Union

Session 41

Legionnaires’ disease – dead legs and shower heads

Professor Nick Phin, Head of Legionella, Health Protection Agency, Centre for Infections

The objectives are to:

-Explore the clinical and epidemiological issues related to Legionnaires’ disease

-Explain the purpose and principles associated with the investigation of Legionnaires’ disease – with a particular emphasis on nosocomial cases, clusters and outbreaks

-Describe the principles associated with the control of Legionella in the hospital setting

 12.25 - 13.00

Session 42  

Using surveillance to change practice:case studies:

- Reducing rates of SSI in orthopaedic surgery: Mike Reed Northumbria NHS Trust

- Using repeated point prevalence surveys as an infection control tool

The objectives are to:  

-Appreciate how to achieve reductions in rates of SSI and the role of surveillance in driving change in practice

-Understand how to use point prevalence surveys to inform infection control practice

-Recognise the value of surveillance in changing infection control practice

Session 43

Control of Clostridium difficile on surfaces: do sporicides work?

Jean-Yves Maillard, Reader in Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Cardiff University

The objectives are to:
- Understand the activity of sporicides and the factors affecting their activity in practice
- Understand challenges of laboratory test methods to mimic conditions found in practice
- Discuss alternative ways to control Clostridium difficile (and other bacterial pathogens) on surfaces

Supported by an educational grant from Gama Healthcare

13.00

Lunch and Exhibition Viewing

14.00 - 14.35

Session 44

"Its not about the number...." - Achieving transformational change in infection prevention

Heather P Loveday, Principal Lecturer Research and Deputy Director HCAI Research Network, Richard Wells Research Centre, Thames Valley University, London

The objectives are to:
- Provide an overview of a multiple methods evaluation of the Department of Health (England) Cleaner Hospitals Programme(CHP)
- Describe practitioner perceptions of what worked in the CHP
- Discuss the context for success in transformational change in infection prevention

14.35 - 15.10

Session 45

What really happened, and what did we learn from the influenza A/H1N1 pandemic in 2009?

Professor Jonathan Van Tam, Professor of Health Protection, University of Nottingham / HPA East Midlands

The objectives are to:
- Review how lessons from previous pandemics of the 20th century prepared us for H1N1

- Review how what we experienced in 2009 will help us prepare better for future pandemics

15.10 - 15.25

Close of conference
Tracey Cooper, IPS President

15.25

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