Conference Pack Programme Aberdeen 16 April 2015

HAI – STRENGTHENING OUR DEFENCES
engage inform interact
HAI AWARENESS EVENT
16 April 2015
Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, Bridge of Don, Aberdeen
Event Aims
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To raise awareness among healthcare workers of HAI prevention and control
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To support healthcare workers to deliver safe, effective, person-centred care
Event Themes
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Engage in delivering improved infection prevention and control
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Inform about latest issues and practices
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Interact to share practice and learn from each other
PROGRAMME
Chair: Robin Creelman, Vice Chair of Argyll & Bute Health and Social Care Partnership
CONCOURSE/CROMBIE SUITE
9.00
REGISTRATION, REFRESHMENTS, NETWORKING AND EXHIBITIONS
9.50 Chair’s Welcome and Opening Remarks
BOYD ORR SUITE
Message from Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing (video)
THEME 1: Engage - the Experience of HAI
10.00 Interactive questions: checking knowledge and assumptions around infection prevention
and control
10.10
Helen’s Story (Forum Interactive)
This interactive session highlights the human costs of HAIs. The personal experience of
Helen, a woman who contracts a surgical site infection, is examined with reference to the
global consequences of antimicrobial resistance.
10.50 REFRESHMENTS, NETWORKING AND EXHIBITIONS
CROMBIE SUITE
BOYD ORR SUITE
THEME 2: Inform - Infection Prevention and Control in Practice
11.20 Antimicrobial prescribing and stewardship: continuity across health and social care
settings
Dr Andrew Seaton, Consultant in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine, NHS Greater Glasgow
and Clyde
11.50 National Infection Prevention and Control Manual: what does this mean in practice?
Lisa Ritchie, Nurse Consultant Infection Control, Health Protection Scotland
12.15 Examples from Health Boards on implementation of the National Infection Prevention
and Control Manual
Travelling from Strength to Strength
Sharon Doyle, HAI Quality Improvement Facilitator, Scottish Ambulance Service
The Who, When, How and What of Equipment Decontamination
Catherine Mitchell, HAI Quality Improvement Facilitator & Scott Arnot, Training Manager,
NHS Grampian
12.55 Interactive questions: checking knowledge and assumptions around implementing changes in practice
1.05
LUNCH, NETWORKING AND EXHIBITIONS
CROMBIE SUITE
THEME 3: Interact - Applying Knowledge and Learning
2.00
HAI standards: applying in the real world
Alastair McGown, Senior Inspector, Healthcare Environment Inspectorate
2.30
Challenging Error - Strengthening our defence through human factors
Mark Johnston, Training and Research Officer, NHS Education for Scotland
Esther Walker, Forum Interactive
3.15
Interactive questions: What has today meant for you?
3.25
Chair’s Closing Remarks
3.30CLOSE
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