Main Headline Sponsor

8.30 - Delegate Registration, Coffee and Networking with Exhibitors

9.35 - Chairman's Opening Address - Professor A M Emmerson, President,
Hospital Infection Society - View Presentation

9.45 - Keynote Speaker - Anna Walker, Chief Executive, Healthcare Commission -
Snapshot of Cleanliness in the NHS - The role of the Regulator in Infection Control - View Presentation

10.25 - Christopher G O’Boyle, Commercial Programme Director, National Decontamination Programme,
DH 'The National Decontamination Super Centre Programme' - View Presentation

10.45 - Mrs. Kashfa Iqbal, Health Economist, NHS Quality Improvement Scotland -
Clinical and cost effectiveness of screening for MRSA - View Presentation

11.00 - Karen Jennings, National Secretary for Health, Unison.
'Making Cleaner Hospitals a Reality' - View Presentation

11.10 - Q&A session

11.35 - Coffee & Networking in the exhibitor hall

12.00 - Morning Workshops

12.45 - Lunch and Networking with Exhibitors

13.45 - Afternoon Workshops

14:35 - Chairman's Opening Address - Chakra Gupta, CEO,
PolyChem Alloy 'Why Anti-microbial' - View Presentation

14.50 - Keynote Speaker - Professor Brian I. Duerden, Inspector of Microbiology and Infection Control,
Department of Health, Tackling MRSA/HCAI in the NHS- a view from the Department of Health - View Presentation

15.05 - Professor Kevin Kerr, Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Harrogate District Hospital 'Reining in resistance and seeing off superbugs - how good are we at prescribing antibiotics prudently?' - View Presentation

15.20 - Main Sponsor - Christian Felter MD, Senior Medical Advisor, Wyeth,
'Antibiotics: Making the right choice' - View Presentation

15:30 - Q&A Session

15:55 - Chairman's Closing Address