Karen Taylor, Director, National Audit Office
09:20 |
Karen joined the National Audit Office in 1977 and qualified as a Chartered Public Finance Accountant in 1982. Since 1983 she has specialised in Value for Money (VFM) audit investigation and is currently one of two Directors of Health responsible for investigating how well the Department of Health and other National Health Service bodies use their resources. Karen expects to publish three to four major VFM audit investigations each year on Health issues. Each of these investigations usually results in a report to Parliament and an examination by the Committee of Public Accounts. Some of her recent reports, which have a tangential relevance to healthcare associated infections, include: A Safer Place for Patients: Learning to Improve Patient Safety (October 2005) Progress in Implementing Clinical Governance in Primary Care: Lessons for New PCTs (January 2007); The reorganisation of neonatal services (December 2007); and reports on NHS and Social Care Complaints handling and on End of Life Care in October 2008 and November 2008 respectively. |
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Presentation: Reducing Healthcare Associated Infections in Hospitals in England - the key findings and recommendations from the National Audit Office and Committee of Public Accounts reports.
The effectiveness of the Department of Health and the wider NHS's approach in tackling healthcare associated infections since the NAO's previous, ground-breaking reports in 2000 and 2004; . What more needs to be done to sustain the reductions in MRSA bloodstream and Clostridium Difficile infections following the introduction of mandatory targets and address the other 80 per cent of healthcare associated infections in hospitals that are not the subject of targets.
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Dr. Ian K Hosein MD MA FCAP FRCPath MBA, Consultant Microbiologist/Director of Infection Prevention & Control Assistant Medical Director North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
09:40 |
Dr. Ian Hosein is the UK’s first Director of Infection Prevention & Control, a position which was subsequently rolled out by the Department of Health in England . He has been a key advocate of the central importance of sound organizational management for optimal infection prevention and control for the last 17 years. He has a keen interest in worldwide issues in infection, including infection control, and was a member of the UNESCO Cymru Wales Committee until 2008. His work on this committee led to a UNESCO Wales grant where he jointly developed distance learning modules for clinical officers in Tanzania (2008) on HIV/STI control. He was also the key committee advocate of the now successful bid for the first UNESCO Chair for Wales (on HIV and Security) based at the University of Aberystwyth (2007). He is the international advisor for the Americas of the Royal College of Pathologists and is currently working with colleagues in the US on fostering closer links for mutual benefit and international development.
Dr Hosein also introduced the use of alcohol gel into the mainstream hospital environment in 1996, changed the name Infection Control to "Infection Prevention & Control" (1995) based on TQM thinking, and created the now common position of Director of Infection Prevention and Control (2000) at the Cardiff &Vale NHS Trust as outcomes of his ideas on organisational management in hospital infection.
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Presentation: Leadership in the NHS
Dr Ian Hosein who first established DIPC role within the NHS will discuss the importance of leadership within Infection Prevention & Control, A coherent message needs to be put forward by different government and non-government organisations and this presentation will focus on how this can be achieved.
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Rose Gallagher, RGN, Dip HSW, BSc (Hons), Nurse Advisor Infection Prevention and Control, Royal College Nursing
10:00 |
Rose is full-time Nurse Advisor for Infection Prevention and Control to the Royal College of Nursing. Based in the Nursing Department, together with other nurse advisors, she provides specialist professional and clinical advice to the college, its members and key stakeholders across the UK on infection prevention and the implications for nurses and nursing.
Rose commenced her career in 1998 as a surveillance nurse, undertaking surgical site infection surveillance for large bowel surgery. Her interest in infection prevention and control grew, and in 2000, she commenced her first Infection Control Nurse position.
Rose is an active member of the Infection Prevention Society and has recently completed a term of office as Coordinator for the North London Branch. She has represented the society as a member of the Expert panel for the National Confidential Study of Deaths following Methicillin Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Infection. Rose has a specific interest in the Clostridium difficile infection and participated in the Consensus meeting for Clostridium difficile in Toronto. Other specific interests include decontamination, surveillance and policy development.
Her current key areas of work are focusing on the progression of the RCN’s 10 Minimum Standards for Infection Control and the revision of the Wipe it Out campaign. This work extends beyond the UK, and Rose represents the RCN as a core member of the newly formed European network for Infection Control.
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How can the infections be controlled from the front line? Methods such as the National Surgical Site Surveillance Scheme, 'Wipe it Out campaign and EC Recommendation on Patient Safety and Infection Control will also be discussed.
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Jonathan Barrett, Director, Becton Dickinson (BD) Diagnostics
10:15 |
Jonathan Barrett is Director at Becton Dickinson (BD) Diagnostics. He graduated in Pharmacy from Aston University, and has developed his career in marketing and business management with leading healthcare companies.
At Becton Dickinson, Jonathan leads a team helping hospitals to reduce healthcare associated infections (MRSA, C. difficile and others). BD supports infection control teams with the latest technologies for MRSA screening programmes, as well as innovative solutions to enhance patient and healthcare worker safety.
For relaxation, Jonathan enjoys spending time with his family and is a keen sports fan, coaching the Marlow Royals, his local under-10 soccer team.
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Presentation: Innovative ideas from industry to support infection control practice
The presentation will touch on contributions made by industry to support infection control practice, in particular, efforts to help reduce healthcare associated infections, eg. MRSA and C. difficile. Innovations to improve patient and healthcare worker safety will also be discussed.
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Professor Hugh Pennington, MBBS, PhD, DSc, FRCPath, FRCP (Edin) FMedSci, FRSE, Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology, University of Aberdeen
14:00 |
Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen, Professor (Thomas) Hugh Pennington obtained his undergraduate medical degree and PhD from St Thomas' Hospital Medical School in 1962 and 1967, respectively. He spent a year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before moving to the Glasgow Institute of Virology in 1969, where he researched smallpox and other viruses. He was appointed Chair of Bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen in 1979, remaining in the post until his retirement in 2003.
Outside academia, Professor Pennington is best-known as the Chair of the Pennington Group enquiry into the 1996 Scottish E.coli outbreak. He is currently chairing the Public Inquiry into the 2005 Welsh E.coli outbreak. He has appeared on the British media as an expert on food safety, commenting on other subjects too, such as BSE, MRSA, SARS (Severe Acquired Respiratory Syndrome) and avian flu. He was a founder member of the Scottish Food Advisory Committee, part of the Food Standards Agency. He was also a founder member of the World Food Programme Technical Advisory Group and is the former Vice-Chair of the Broadcasting Council for Scotland advising the BBC. He was President of the Society for General Microbiology from 2003-2006.
Publications include: When Food Kills (on the topic of BSE, E-coli and public food safety). He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. |
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Professor Hugh Pennington will describe the present situation in the UK and the barriers, from the policy to the ward, including the shortcomings of clinical management and information technology such as integrated networks and hospital-wide information services. All of these hinder our progress towards complete infection prevention.
Professor Pennington will also share his experience as Head of the Pennington Group in their current inquiry into the 2005 E. coli outbreak in South Wales
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Wayne Spencer, Senior Technical Advisor for the National Decontamination Programme, Department of Health
14:20 |
Wayne is a Technical Advisor to the Department of Health, including working with the National Decontamination Project at both a national and local level. This includes assisting NHS trust collaborations to deliver their local procurements for new sterile service centres. Whilst working within the department, Wayne chaired the decontamination investment process that delivered £90m of investment to those areas requiring immediate assistance. Wayne was Chairman of the Engineering Specification working group that produced the Surgical Instrument Management System specification. He now works for himself as an independent consultant on decontamination and healthcare engineering issues since leaving the Department of Health, and is also an Authorising Engineer (Decontamination). |
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Presentation: Lessons learned from the transfer of instrument decontamination services to off-site centres
Wayne Spencer will discuss the National Decontamination Programme. Decontamination is a combination of processes, including cleaning, disinfection and/or sterilization, used to render reusable surgical instruments safe for further use. Improving decontamination forms an important part of the Chief Medical Officer’s strategy to combat healthcare associated infections. The initiatives aim is to give better protection to patients and staff by improving decontamination.
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Maria Cann, Secretary, MRSA Action UK
14:40 |
Maria Cann is Secretary of MRSA Action UK, a charitable organisations mission is to raise public awareness and to influence Government and healthcare providers in the fight to prevent MRSA and all healthcare infections.
We do this by sharing knowledge and best practice and by providing an advocacy and support service for victims who have been affected by healthcare infections. We assist the bereaved and their dependants, and give feedback to Government agencies, healthcare providers and partner organisations through our shared learning and experience. We are guided by the principle that the care and safety of patients is never compromised.
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