HIS Trainee Day - Aspects of Decontamination

Registration for this event is now full. If you wish to attend please call the HIS office on 0207 713 0273.

This event is FREE to attend for Trainee members, although a refundable deposit of £50 is required during registration.

The Healthcare Infection Society has developed a structured Trainee Education Programme specifically for medical microbiology, medical virology and infectious diseases trainees and is aligned to their curricula.

The programme comprises of a series of three one-day training sessions per year, over a three year period. This programme is available primarily to HIS Trainee members. A small number of places are available to non-trainees. If you fall into this category, and would like to attend. Please contact admin@his.org.uk.

If you are not already a HIS Trainee member, you can join for FREE today. Once your membership application has been completed, you are eligible to attend this event.

Programme - 7 November 2017

9:00 - 9:15 Registration and Coffee

9:15 - 9:20 Welcome and introduction, Tina Bradley (Laboratory Manager, Hospital Infection Research Laboratory, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham)

9:20 - 9:50 Decontamination – an introduction, Peter Hoffman (Consultant Clinical Scientist, Public Health England, London)

09:50 - 10:50 Decontamination of medical devices, Tina Bradley (Laboratory Manager, Hospital Infection Research Laboratory, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham)

10:50 - 11:10 Coffee

11:10 - 11:50 Healthcare laundry. (You won’t get involved until something goes wrong), Peter Hoffman (Consultant Clinical Scientist, Public Health England, London)

11:50 - 12:30 Food safety in healthcare, Helen Harper (Environmental Health Officer)

12:30 - 1:15 Waste, laundry, cleaning etc. contracts – do’s and don’ts from an IPC perspective, John McElhoney (Operational Contract manager, QEHB)

1:15 - 2:15 Lunch

2:15 - 3:15 Decontamination of flexible endoscopes and intracavity probes, Tina Bradley (Laboratory Manager, Hospital Infection Research Laboratory, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham)

3:15 - 3:45 Decontamination failures – how do you analyse? Peter Hoffman (Consultant Clinical Scientist, Public Health England, London)

3:45 - 4:00 What does all this mean? Tina Bradley (Laboratory Manager, Hospital Infection Research Laboratory, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham)

4.00 Tea and depart