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08:45 - Registration and refreshments

09:25 - Welcome and introduction from the Chair
Pennie Taylor, Journalist and Broadcaster

Session One: The Big Picture

As the result of an ambitious and energised campaign against HAIs, NHS Scotland has met and exceeded targets and expectations. Can even more ambitious targets be met in the current economic context? Presuming focus, funding and intervention, can the HAI burden be reduced to zero? As focus shifts to other less advanced priority areas, how can infection control be integrated into core business to maintain progress?

09:35 - Overview: Maintaining standards and accepting accountability
Ros Moore, Chief Nursing Officer and Chair, HAI Taskforce

09:55 - MRSA: The next 50 years
Dr. Ian Gould, Consultant and Service Clinical Director, Medical Microbiology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary

10:10 - Getting to zero: Can Scotland do it?
Dr. Jason Leitch, Clinical Director, Quality Unit, The Scottish Government

10:25 - Questions and discussion

10:45 - Refreshments

Session Two: Breakouts

A series of breakouts will run during session two. These will give delegates the chance to focus on areas particularly pertinent to their areas of interest.

Delegates will be asked to choose two 45 minute breakouts to attend from a selection of four.

11:05 - First breakout
11:50 - Transition between breakouts
11:55 - Second breakout
12:40 - Lunch

Breakout One: Perioperative interventions to reduce surgical site infections
Professor Judith Tanner, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Breakout Two: Paper is just paper, isn't it?
Paula Howard, Key Account Manager, Healthcare, TORK

Breakout Three: Hygiene technology - Empowering a frontline approach to reducing HCAI
Mike Rollins, Healthcare Consultant, Osprey Deepclean and Patron, Association of Healthcare Cleaning Professionals (AHCP)

Breakout Four: The potential of probiotics as part of an infection control strategy
Dr. Aileen Helps, Renal Registrar, Western Infirmary Glasgow

Session Three: Getting it Right Every Time

While infection control programmes (supported by developing drugs and technology) undoubtedly drive focused infection control solutions, pursuit of a zero tolerance policy must be shared and enacted by everyone involved in healthcare. Basics such as cleanliness and hand washing must become business as usual, and staff, patients and the public must habitualise good infection control practice.

13:40 - Making good practice a mainstream activity
Dr. Denise Coia, Chair, Healthcare Improvement Scotland

14:00 - Communicating the message
Dr. Mags McGuire, Nurse Director, NHS Tayside

14:20 - Hospital cleaning in the 21st century
Dr. Stephanie Dancer, Consultant Microbiologist, NHS Lanarkshire

14:40 - Questions and discussion

15:00 - Refreshments

Session Four: Securing the Future

While healthcare providers need to focus closely on their own core practices in the pursuit of consistent infection control, broader developments must be recognised and proactively engaged. This session will look first at how social and health care integration for vulnerable groups will necessitate new approaches to infection control. Secondly, it will look at how preventative efforts can be enhanced, and how mainstreamed provider practice can interact with broader themes such as patient safety and anti microbial resistance.

15:20 - Social care for vulnerable groups
Audrey Mackenzie, Professional Adviser for Infection Prevention and Control, Care Inspectorate

15:35 - Prescribing and adherence to formulary
Professor Bob Masterton, Director, Policy and Practice, Institute of Healthcare Associated Infection

15:50 - Closing keynote
Professor Hugh Pennington, Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology, University of Aberdeen

16:10 - Questions and discussion

16:30 - Summary and conclusions from the Chair

16:35 - Close of conference