IPC Training Day - IPC in adult and paediatric critical care

25 June 2025

Programme is subject to change

10:00 - 10:05 Welcome and introduction Chair
10:05 - 10:40 Preventing HCAIs in critical care patients

Tom Hellyer, Newcastle University

10:40 – 11:15

Ventilator-associated pneumonia

Martin Kiernan, University of West London

11:15 - 11:35 Break

 

11:35 - 12:10

Chlorhexidine: friend or foe?

David Enoch, Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge

12:10 - 12:45

Reducing line infections in ITU/ surveillance

Andrea Mazzella, UK Health Security Agency

12:45 - 13:30

Lunch

 

13:30 - 14:05

Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance in children and young people: A UKHSA perspective

Alicia Demirjian, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and UK Health Security Agency

14:05 - 14:40 Not just tiny adults – infection control issues in neonatal intensive care

Elizabeth Pilling, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

14:40- 15:00 Break  
15:00 - 15:35

Klebsiella outbreak in NICU case study

Lisa Gray, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

15:35 - 15:40

 

 

Summary and close

 

 

 Chair