Global burden of healthcare associated infections

Dr Benedetta Allegranzi, World Health Organisation (WHO)

The objectives are to:

• provide delegates with an understanding of the worldwide burden of healthcare associated infections
• discuss the differing worldwide challenges
• explore opportunities for improvement

Global threat of TB

Professor Ibrahim Abubakar, Consultant Epidemiologist, Health Protection Agency

The objectives are to:

• give an overview of the current picture of TB across the world
• discuss the differences in TB management between Europe and the US
• discuss how WHO are tackling the problem

Assessment of microorganisms in aerosols in the healthcare setting

Dr Jimmy Walker, Principal Investigator - Decontamination, Health Protection Agency

The objectives are to:

• examine the evidence regarding air as a vector
• understand current and emerging assessment strategies
• assess the impact of the environment in disease transmission

 TB - Find and treat – Peer education

David Olapoju, Peer Educator, Find and Treat*

The objectives are to:

• understand the role of third sector organisations in controlling TB
• explore how the role of the Peer Educator can support screening, diagnosis and adherence to treatment hard to reach groups
• be aware of NICE guidance in relation to hard to reach groups

Which way does the wind blow?

Craig Mackintosh, Clinical Scientist, MACAIR Consulting

The objectives are to:

• put ventilation and air hygiene into context in terms of overall causes of HCAI
• identify the basic principles of ventilation systems
• suggest a role for the audience as users of the systems

EM Cottrell Lecture – Think; Plan; Do

Professor Judith Tanner, Professor of Clinical Nursing Research, De Montfort University

The objectives are to:

• develop a ‘can do’ attitude
• demystify research
• discuss implementing your research into practice

Do league tables improve patient safety? Perspectives from across the pond 

Russell Olmsted, Director, Infection Prevention & Control Services, St. Joseph Mercy Health System, Michigan, USA

The objectives are to:

• identify the lessons learned from the introduction of mandatory reporting in the USA
• discuss the positives and negatives of mandatory reporting
• explore what a professional society can do to deliver the positive and avoid the negative aspects of mandatory reporting

Infection Prevention in the Dock 

This session will be facilitated by 7 Solicitors LLP

The objectives are to:

• take the mystery out of courtroom appearances 
• provide an interactive insight into how to conduct oneself if summoned to appear in court

Making the most of your competence framework: a practical workshop

Margaret Tannahill, Consultant Nurse Infection Control, Care Inspectorate

The objectives are to:

• identify a variety of uses for the Competence Framework in relation to practice
• understand how the Competence Framework can be used for personal, team and service development
• explore how the Competence Framework is being used in practice and by Branches

Meet the experts - Develop your research skills by meeting the experts

Professor Judith Tanner, Professor of Clinical Nursing Research, De Montfort University

Dr David Jenkins, Consultant Medical Microbiologist, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust 

Objectives are to:

• explore how to turn your ideas into a research study
• identify what support is available
• discuss whether there is funding out there

Meet the experts - How to investigate and manage an outbreak: an interactive session

Dr Tim Boswell, Consultant Medical Microbiologist & Infection Control Doctor, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Martin Kiernan, Nurse Consultant, Infection Prevention, Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

Objectives are to:

• provide participants with the general principles of investigating and managing outbreaks
• demonstrate how these general principles can be used successfully when faced with an unusual and unexpected outbreak situation

Role of European Centre for Disease Prevention (ECDC)

Dr. Anna-Pelagia Magiorakos, European Centre for Disease Prevention, Stockholm Sweden

The objectives are to:

• confirm who ECDC are and what their main activities are
• discuss what are the current infection prevention and control (IPC) challenges and projects that ECDC is working on

Too posh to wash

Martin Kiernan, Nurse Consultant, Infection Prevention, Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

The objectives are to:

• review the literature around non-specialists undertaking cleaning activities
• examine the role of non-specialists in cleaning
• discuss education of non-specialists

Supported by an educational grant from Gama Healthcare

The effectiveness of national HCAI programmes

Claire Kilpatrick, Nurse Consultant, WHO World alliance for Patient Safety*

Objectives are to:

• explore the impact of national HCAI programmes
• evaluate the effectiveness of care bundles on patient outcomes

Healthcare ‘risk’ waste management: In sight, out of mind? 

Edward Krisiunas, President, WNWN International

Objectives are to:

• identify the risks of ‘risk’ waste: what does the literature provide?
• identify the challenges to healthcare practitioners e.g. infection prevention from a global perspective
• utilise healthcare waste management resources enumerated in the presentation to apply to practice

How do we know infection prevention works?

Dr David Jenkins, Consultant Medical Microbiologist, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust 

Objectives are to:

• gain an understanding of how to interpret infection prevention interventions
• appreciate how to judge whether interventions really work
• apply sound methods to literature reviews and your own practice

The implementation of the European Sharps Directive

Ian Lindsley, Director, European Biosafety Network

The objectives are to:

• understand the implications of the European Sharps Directive
• appreciate the challenges faced by organisations
• identify sustainable solutions to implementation

The use of social marketing in health

Gina Banns, OxfordSM

The objectives are to:

• describe the principles of social marketing
• identify examples of how social marketing has been used to influence human behaviour, improve health and benefit society
• consider how social marketing principles may be applied to infection prevention

Improving quality during times of transition

Professor Ian Cumming OBE, National Director for Quality During Transition, National Quality Team

The objectives are to:

• understand the importance of continual quality improvement
• appreciate the challenges faced improving quality during time of transition
• understand the processes and systems required to ensure high quality care is delivered during transition to a new healthcare system

An ethnographic study of infection prevention and control in a mental health trust

Dr Julie Hughes, Nurse Consultant/Senior Lecturer, 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust / University of Chester

The objectives are to:

• gain an in depth study of the challenges involved in complying with infection prevention in a mental health trust
• gain an insight into the role of leadership, role models and organisational structure within infection prevention and control
• identify the educational / training preparation and the needs of healthcare workers in relation to infection prevention and control and make recommendations for practice

Patient Involvement - A requirement for Patient Safety

Margaret Murphy, Steering Group Member, Patient for Patient Safety, World Health Organisation (WHO)

The objectives are to:

• define patient involvement and engagement in the 21st century
• outline some key examples of failures in patient involvement that can lead to patient harm, including HCAI
• outline some key examples of patient involvement successes and how these can be achieved by healthcare workers every day

Vaccine preventable diseases, global challenges and solutions

Joanne Yarwood, Head of Implementation – Immunisation, Department of Health

The objectives are to understand the following:

• the  role  of  vaccines in reducing infectious disease, and the benefits to the individual and wider public health
• the  role  of  the  healthcare  professional  in  promoting  and delivering immunisation
• challenges faced when dealing with different cultures
• vaccine developments to address Infectious disease adversaries – old and new

Set me free - letting go of hand hygiene

Julie Storr, WHO Consultant, Imperial College London

Claire Kilpatrick, Nurse Consultant, WHO World alliance for Patient Safety

The objectives are to:

• describe the current context for hand hygiene improvement and how assimilation, influenced by the field of public health and policy implementation, could lead to greater success
• explore what we can learn from human factors, ergonomics, neurosciences and social marketing to best make hand hygiene a central and intuitive behaviour within a set of behaviours and actions that are necessary for safety, including through the use of care bundles
• outline a blueprint for action to sustain hand hygiene integration and improvement

Ayliffe Lecture

Professor Andreas Voss, Professor of Infection Control, Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital  and Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands

European Prevalence Survey - England perspective: ECDC led point prevalence survey on healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial use in acute care hospitals

Dr Susan Hopkins, Healthcare Epidemiologist,  Health Protection Agency Consultant in Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust Honorary Senior Lecturer, UCL

The objectives are to:

• review preliminary data from Europe
• UK & Ireland - inter-country comparisons
• discuss where to next with HCAI surveillance & interventions
• explore what actions are required for antimicrobial stewardship

Management of an international wide E. coli outbreak

Professor Dilys Morgan, Head, Gastrointestinal, Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, Health Protection Agency

The objectives are to:

• understand the complexities and challenges of dealing with an international outbreak
• identify the mechanisms for case finding on an international scale
• understand  international surveillance systems and control measures

Surface coatings – a review of the evidence

Christopher Gush, Head of Clinical Innovation and Research, Royal College of General Practitioners

The objectives are to:

• The rationale for antimicrobial surfaces in healthcare
• An overview of available antimicrobial surfaces
• Gaps in the evidence for the use of antimicrobial surfaces

Are targets the friend or foe of surveillance?

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

Target - Martin Kiernan, Nurse Consultant, Infection Prevention, Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust

The objectives are to:

• briefly review current HCAI surveillance
• examine opportunities for developing effective surveillance activities
• discuss the use of surveillance data in performance management

Pandemic influenza planning - a framework for an earthquake response

Julianne Munro, Clinical Nurse Specialist – Infection Presentation and Control, Canterbury District Health Board Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand

The objectives are to:

• outline the key strategies from a pandemic influenza action plan utilized for disaster management in a city extensively damaged  by several earthquakes in 2010 and 2011
• discuss the importance of a well established Coordinated Incident Management System when faced with a major natural disaster
• outline Infection Prevention and Control issues and solutions utilized in both hospitals and the community to deal with no running water and a non functioning sewage system
• review issues surrounding relocation, evacuation and setting up of welfare centres
• describe surveillance that supports the success of Infection Prevention and Control strategies implemented

HOUDINI - Minimising unnecessary urinary catheterisation

Professor Heather Loveday, Principal Lecturer, University of West London

The objects are to:

• explain the background to the HOUDINI nurse led protocol for the removal of indwelling urethral catheters
• describe the methods used in the HOUDINI implementation project
• discuss the problems and limitations associated with data collection in the 'real world'
• present the results of the first six months of the project
• provide an insight into the facilitators and barriers to the use of the HOUDINI protocols

Are we too clean for our own good? - the hygiene hypothesis and its implications for Infection Prevention and Control

Professor Sally Bloomfield, Honorary Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Chairman International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene, International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene

The objectives are to:

• review current understanding about the link between microbial exposure and the development of allergies and other chronic inflammatory disorders
• review what is known about the nature of the microbial exposure required for “balanced” immune development
• consider the implications of current thinking about the hygiene hypothesis in relation to public strategies for infection prevention and control

How to identify, expose, and challenge Bad Science
Dr Ben Goldacre, Author and Academic

The objectives are to:

• explore examples of "bad science"
• arm the audience with tools to spot and neutralise bad science