Don't panic! programme
19 June 2019
09:00 – 09:35 | Registration and refreshments |
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09:35 – 09:40 | Welcome and introduction |
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Session 1 - What to do about CPEs (or not) |
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09:40 – 10:20 |
What’s the most effective CPE screening strategy? |
Dr Eimear Brannigan, Imperial College London Biography |
10:20 – 11:00 |
CPE positive forever? Or can we de-isolate |
Dr Andrew Dodgson, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Biography |
11:00 – 11:30 |
Coffee/tea break |
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Session 2 – The role of behaviour in IPC and AMS |
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11:30 – 11:55 |
Medicine versus surgery – cultural differences in antimicrobial prescribing |
Dr Esmita Charani, NIHR HPRU in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance |
11:55 – 12:20 |
Understanding cultural differences to improve IPC practice |
Dr Lesley Price, Glasgow Caledonian University Biography |
12:20 – 12:45 |
Developing the role of the AMS nurse specialist |
Susan Bowler, Nottingham University NHS Trust Biography |
12:45 – 13:40 |
Lunch and posters |
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Session 3 Selected presentations from abstracts | ||
13:40 - 13:52 |
The mobile phone microbiome - The true extent of contamination |
Rebecca Simmonds, The University of South Wales |
13:52 - 14:04 |
Hygienic status of hospital surfaces following cleaning using ATP bio-luminescence detection |
Iduma Devine Akhidime, Microbiology at Interfaces Research Group, Manchester Metropolitan University |
14:04 - 14:16 |
Usefulness of the Bristol Stool Chart Scoring System for the laboratory processing of faecal samples in suspected Clostridium difficile cases |
Dr Nick Wong, Department of Medical Microbiology, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust |
14:16 - 14:28 |
Routine identification of Carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative bacteria by diagnostic laboratories in England demands surveillance modernisation Abstract |
Rachel Freeman, National Infection Service, Public Health England |
14:28 - 14:40 |
Changing attitudes and perceptions towards infection control: building an effective business case |
Lillian Chiwera, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust |
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Session 4 - Sequencing – from theory to practice |
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14:40 – 14:50 |
Coffee/tea break |
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14:50 – 15:10 |
Norovirus transmission in paediatrics |
Professor Judith Breuer, University College London |
15:10 – 15:40 |
How important are colonised patients in C.difficile transmission? |
Dr David Eyre, Oxford University Hospitals Biography |
15:40 – 16:05 |
Changing definitions in C.difficile: what differences will this make? |
Professor Mark Wilcox, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |
16:05 |
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