Don't panic! programme
23 June 2022
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| 09:30 – 09:35 | Welcome and introduction | |
| The old foes haven't disappeared ... | ||
| 09:35 - 10:00 | Update on the UK epidemiology of MRSA and MSSA | Bruno Pichon, UK Health Security Agency |
| 10:00 - 10:25 |
Incidence, outcomes and antimicrobial resistance in Gram negative bloodstream infection |
Sarah Gerver, UK Health Security Agency |
| 10:25 - 10:50 | Recent changes in the epidemiology of invasive meningococcal infection | Stephen Clark, UK Health Security Agency |
| 10:50 - 11:15 | Break | |
| Lessons for IPC in communicating risk | ||
| 11:15 - 11:40 | Dr Alexandra Freeman, University of Cambridge | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Using Twitter during the #COVID19 pandemic |
Charlotte Hammer, Cambridge Infectious Diseases, University of Cambridge |
| 12:00 - 12.20 | What's the Story? Effective Media Communication for IPC practitioners | Mark Brealey, Mark Brealey Communications Ltd |
| 12:20 - 12:30 | Q&A Mark Brealey and Charlotte Hammer | |
| 12.30 - 13.15 | Lunch | |
| New/updated guidelines review | ||
| 13:15 - 13:30 | Publication of Updated VHF guidelines, on behalf of The Advisory Committee of Dangerous Pathogens | Anne Tunbridge, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |
| 13:30 - 13:55 | Final rinse water for endoscope washer-disinfectors | Craig Williams, Lancaster Royal Infirmary |
| 13:55 - 14:20 | Guidelines on the control of diphtheria | Colin Brown, UK Health Security Agency |
| 14:20 - 14:45 | Automated room decontamination | Alan Beswick, Health and Safety Executive |
| 14:45 - 15:05 | Break | |
| Lessons from the pandemic | ||
| 15:05 - 15:30 | Within-hospital SARS-CoV-2 transmission | Benjamin Lindsey, Sheffield Hospitals NHS Trust |
| 15:30 - 15:55 | Antimicrobial resistance and COVID-19: intersections and implications | Gwen Knight, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine |
| 15:55 - 16:20 |
Changes in public health-seeking behaviours for respiratory tract infections during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
Donna Lecky, UK Health Security Agency |