HISCON 2025
Programme timings and presentation titles are subject to change
Day 1 - Tuesday 17 June
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Registration and refreshments | |
| 09:50 - 10:00 | Welcome and introduction | Jincy Jerry, Director of Infection Prevention and Control, NHS Ayrshire and Arran, Scotland |
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Putting patients front and centre – in the built environment |
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| 10:00 - 10:50 | Keynote Presentation - Using Systems Thinking to deliver safety in complex organisations | Dame Judith Hackitt |
| 10:50 - 11:05 | Risk based approached to managing occupant safety | George McCracken, Head of Estates Risk and Environment, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust |
| 11:05 - 11:25 | Combating AMR through the built environment in the NHS; ICD and CMO perspectives from Frimley Health |
Tim Ho, Chief Medical Officer, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust Manjula Meda, Consultant Microbiologist, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| 11:25 - 11:50 | Break and exhibition | |
| Putting patients front and centre – in the built environment continued Chaired by Manjula Meda, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
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| 11:50 - 12:10 | Interactive session - Competence | Michael Weinbren, Consultant Medical Microbiologist & Specialist Advisor Microbiology, New Hospitals Programme |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | View of Estates and engineers | Nigel Keery, IHEEM President & Head of Estates Operations, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust |
| 12:30 - 12:50 | NHS Occupant safety - The opportunity to change |
Alpa Patel, Transformation Directorate Integration Lead, New Hospital Programme Rahul Chodhari, Associate Director – Medical Innovation, New Hospitals Programme, UK |
| 12:50 - 13:10 | Top things to do if you are about to have a new build/refurbishment | Panel discussion |
| 13:10 - 14:20 | Lunch break and exhibition | |
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Practical aspects of implementing the NETB 2024/3 |
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| 14:20 - 15:00 | Keynote Presentation – Introduction to NETB 2024/3 Designing safe spaces for patients at high risk of infection from Nontuberculous Mycobacteria and other waterborne pathogens– more than NTMs, more than water (in association with RSPH) | Susanne Surman Lee, Director, Leegionella Ltd |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Practical tips for delivering real time change |
Trupti Patel, Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, Clinical Lead for Microbiology and Infection Control Doctor, UCLH Jessica Martin, Consultant Microbiologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, NHS Trust |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Public Health Matters – What would Einstein say? | Kevin Wellman, Chief Executive, Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Joint Q&A panel | |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Break and exhibition | |
| 16:20 - 17:00 | Panel discussion |
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| 17:00 - 19:00 | Drinks reception | |
Day 2 - Wednesday 18 June
| 09:00 - 09:25 | Registration and refreshments | |
| 09:25 - 09:30 | Welcome and introduction | Jincy Jerry, Director of Infection Prevention and Control, NHS Ayrshire and Arran, UK |
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Novel aspects of the built environment |
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| 09:30 - 09:50 |
Water safety issues and why patient rooms are such a high risk in hospitals |
Jimmy Walker, Independent water microbiology consultant, UK |
| 09:50 - 10:10 |
IPC team's role in the hospital built environment – management and response to concerns |
Sara Mumford, Chief Medical Officer, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, UK |
| 10:10 - 10:30 |
Using surveillance systems to monitor impact of novel changes to the built environment |
Vicky Gentry, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| 10:30 - 10:50 |
Panel Q&A |
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| 10:50 - 11:20 | Break and exhibition | |
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Artificial Intelligence |
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| 11:20 - 11:40 |
Machine learning for the prediction of infection in hospitalised patients |
Timothy Rawson, Honorary Clinical Lecturer, Imperial College London, UK |
| 11:40 - 12:00 |
Remote surgical wound monitoring and the role of artificial intelligence |
Melissa Rochon, Trust Lead for SSI Surveillance, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, UK |
| 12:00 - 12:20 |
Advancing Infection Prevention and Control through AI: A Scoping Review of Applications, Barriers, and a Decision-Support Checklist’ |
Silvana Gastaldi, IPC Specialist, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy |
| 12:20 - 12:40 |
Panel Q&A |
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| 12:40 - 13:50 | Lunch break and exhibition | |
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Whole Genome Sequencing |
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| 13:50 - 14:10 |
Practical use of WGS for IPC: visualising potential transmission events |
David Eyre, Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Oxford, UK |
| 14:10 - 14:30 |
Real-time Genomic Surveillance for Healthcare Outbreaks: Current Evidence & Future Directions |
Alex Sundermann, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, USA |
| 14:30 - 14:50 |
Genomic analysis reveals persistence of three distinct ST80 VREfm clones over 39 months in a large Irish hospital |
Peter Kinnevey, Lecturer, Dublin Dental University Hospital, Ireland |
| 14:50 - 15:10 |
Panel Q&A |
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| 15:10 - 15:35 | Break and exhibition | |
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Abstract oral presentations |
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| 15:35 - 15:45 | Prevalence and diversity of Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria in UK hospital water systems | Sam Watkin, UKHSA (Presented on behalf of Laura Steege, UKHSA) |
| 15:45 - 15:55 | Are Clostridioides difficile ribotype 955 spores susceptible to sporicidal disinfectants used in hospitals? | Sam Watkin, UKHSA |
| 15:55 - 16:05 | Urinary tract infections in care homes in England: a matched case-control analysis of infection burden, management, outcomes using linked data | Nina J Zhu, Imperial College London, UK |
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Metagenomics |
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| 16:05 - 16:25 |
Metagenomic next-generation sequencing in clinical virology: bioinformatic analysis and reporting |
Nathanial Storey, Senior Bioinformatician, Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK |
| 16:25 - 16:55 |
The use of metagenomics for the detections of emerging pathogens |
Meera Chand, Deputy Director, Travel Health, Zoonoses, Emerging Infections, Respiratory & Tuberculosis, UKHSA, UK |
| 16:55 - 17:10 |
Panel Q&A |
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| 17:10 | Closing remarks | Jincy Jerry, Director of Infection Prevention and Control, NHS Ayrshire and Arran, UK |
| 17:15 | End of conference | |