Welcome and Introduction

Jincy Jerry, Director of Infection Prevention and Control, NHS Ayrshire and Arran, UK

Keynote Presentation | Advancing surveillance of HCAIs: Focus on Pneumonia

Top 10 IPC publications of the year -  A curated review of most influential studies & the impact on frontline IPC practice

Dr Gemma Winzor, Editor-in-Chief, Infection Prevention in Practice, UK

Dr Martyn Wilkinson, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Hospital Infection, UK

Sponsored symposium | Impact of geometry, angle and line-of-sight on UV‑C disinfection efficacy

Ellie Wishart, Senior Medical Affairs Manager for EMEA, Nanosonics, UK

Ongoing and upcoming clinical trials in IPC - Global IPC trends and lessons  from WHO guidelines

Dr Walter Zingg, Senior Physician, Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Universitätsspital Zürich, Switzerland

Ethics and AMR Control: The Hidden Dimension of Infection Prevention

Prof Evelina Tacconelli, Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Verona, Italy

• Perspectives from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland
• Key surveillance insights
• New national initiatives

Dr Colin Brown, Deputy Director, Clinical and Emerging Infections, UKHSA, UK

Dr Eimear Brannigan, Clinical Lead - AMRIC, Health Service Executive, Ireland

Shona Cairns, Consultant Healthcare Scientist, ARHAI Scotland, UK

Dr Paul McGurnaghan, Consultant in Public Health, Public Health Agency, UK

16:10 - 16:25

Sponsored symposium | Clinical trial of Primel Active Hand Shield with residual activity compared with an alcohol-based hand sanitiser to measure the effectiveness on hand contamination and microbial transmission

Prof Mark Wilcox, National Clinical Director for IPC, NHSE, UK

16:25 - 16:45

CLABSI surveillance: Present and Future

Prof Niccolo Buetti, Deputy Head of Infection Prevention and Control, Geneva University Hospitals and WHO Collaborating Centre, Switzerland

16:45 - 17:05

Using sequencing data in IPC and AMR surveillance

Dr Esther van Kleef, Senior Research Associate, University of Oxford, UK

17:05 - 17:25

Wastewater surveillance for developing pathogen forecasting systems

Prof Matt Holden, Head of Pathogen Genomics, Public Health Scotland

Panel Q&A

Drinks reception & poster presentations

Keynote Presentation | Climate Change: Emerging Pathogens and the Human Parasite

Prof Hugh Montgomery, Consultant Intensivist, UCL and Director, Real Zero, UK

PPE: Use, Misuse and Harms

Prof Mahmood Bhutta, Consultant Otologist and Clinical Green Lead, University Hospitals Sussex, UK

Environmentally sustainable healthcare: The role of infection specialists

Dr Sarah Walpole, Infectious Diseases and Medicine Specialist Registrar, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Sponsored Symposium | Reducing Blood Culture Contamination: The role of blood culture diversion devices.

Phil Norville, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, IPC Partners, UK

Oral presentations form selected abstracts

Sponsored Symposium | Comparative Performance of Automated Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Systems and Impact on Antimicrobial Stewardship and Healthcare Costs for Gram-Negative Bloodstream Infections

Joanna Miller, Blood Culture & Antibiotic Lead, Microbiology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK

How do AMR and AMS differ in the community?

Dr Catrin Moore, Professor in Global Health and Infectious Diseases, City St George’s, University of London, UK

Building an antimicrobial stewardship strategy: lessons learned along the way

Dr Emma McGuire, AMS Strategy Lead, University College Hospitals NHS FT, UK

14:45 - 15:05

Novel Antimicrobial Stewardship Models

Prof Evelina Tacconelli, Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Verona, Italy

15:05 - 15:25

AMR in intensive care

Luke Moore, Infectious Diseases Consultant and Clinical Microbiologist, Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, UK

15:25 - 15:45

AMR in Conflict Settings: the Hidden Threat

Dr Aula Abbara, Consultant in Infectious Diseases, Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, UK

15:45 - 16:00