IPC Training Day - Reducing harm to patients and improving quality of care

10 November 2026

Programme is subject to change

10:00 - 10:05 Welcome and introduction Chair
10:05 - 10:40

Surgical site infection: why it's important & how to prevent

Jennie Wilson, University of West London

10:40 - 11:15

The role of theatre in infection - and how to prevent

Speaker to be confirmed

11:15 - 11:30 Break

 

11:30 - 12:05

Making the case for a successful surgical site infection surveillance

Professor Judith Tanner, University of Nottingham
12:05 - 12:40

Operation Theatre Behaviours and Rituals

Professor Jude Robinson, University of Glasgow

12:40 - 13:30

Lunch

 

13:30 - 14:05

How to investigate a theatre related outbreak (case study)

Speaker to be confirmed

14:05 - 14:40

In the aer-ogenes? - investigating postop neurosurgical infection

Chris Lynch, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals

14:40 - 14:55 Break  
14:55 - 15:30 The Power of Prediciton

Sid Mookerjee, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust

15.30 - 16.05

Penicillin Allergy De-labelling

Speaker to be confirmed
16.05 - 16.10 Summary and close  Chair