This week-long residential course comprises the theory and practice of those engineering applications that have infection control impacts: specialist ventilation such as operating theatres, washer-disinfectors for surgical instruments and endoscopes, and steam sterilisers. These are covered in lectures by specialist engineers together with demonstrations and practicals in Eastwood Park’s unique facilities. There are also guided visits to facilities where engineering is applied to infection control, such as Sterile Supply Departments, healthcare laundries and hospital kitchens. All these activities and their applications are explored in discussion sessions where delegates are encouraged to relate the engineering aspects to their own experience of infection control.
The aims of this course are:
• to give practitioners an understanding of how engineering contributes to infection control
• to demystify the concepts behind this contribution
• to enable them to have more meaningful exchanges with their Estates Departments
• to assess how various engineering problems really impact on infection transmission.
There will be two courses in 2010: one from 17th to 21st May and another from 18th to 22nd October. Both will be held at Eastwood Park Training Centre in Falfield (near Bristol), a specialist centre for healthcare engineering. The course is a module for the Diploma in Hospital Infection Control, but can also be taken by experienced infection control practitioners not registered for the DipHIC. This course is registered for 35 CPD points. The fee is £1600 (residential) or £1300 (non-residential). Fees may be liable to change.
For details regarding registration or further information about the courses please write to Sheila Culkin, Laboratory of Healthcare Associated Infection, HPA, 61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5EQ, or email Sheila.Culkin@hpa.org.uk
For details of the venue, visit www.eastwoodpark.co.uk
