08/12/2009
Venue: Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester
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Implementing the NICE SSI Guidance: Moving Forward
Part of the Healthcare Associated Infection Series - Fourth National Conference
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Chair: Prof David Leaper, Chairman, Guideline Development Group, Surgical Site Infection, The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
10.00 Chairman’s Introduction
Surgical Site Infections: Towards Zero
10.15 Surgical Site Infection: Monitoring Surveillance, Moving Forward and Implementing the NICE Surgical Site Infection Guidance
Dr Mark Farrington, Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust & Member, Guideline Development Group, Surgical Site Infection, The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
• the evidence on what works and what is avoidable
• implementing the NICE guidance on Surgical Site Infection
• monitoring practice and progress against the guideline
• challenges and quick wins
10.45 Reducing surgical harm including SSI’s
An update from the new National Patient Safety First Campaign and the World Health Organisation Safe Surgery Saves Lives Campaign - Mr Mark Emerton, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Fellow, The NHS Institute for Innovation an Improvement & Core Team Member, The National Patient Safety First Campaign
• the Patient Safety First Campaign: an introduction
• reducing surgical harm: developments from the Campaign
• Safe Surgery Saves Lives: an update from WHO
• implementation in practice
11.15 Questions and answers followed by Coffee and Exhibition
11.50 Effective surveillance in practice: practicalities and real time improvement
Jennie Wilson, Programme Leader, SSI Surveillance, Department of Healthcare Associated Infection, Health Protection Agency & Member, Guideline Development Group, Surgical Site Infection, The National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence
• the practicalities of Surgical Site Surveillance
• developing a ward level service and delivering real time improvement
• moving forward at national and local level
12.20 Involving and engaging patients to reduce SSI
Bev Hurst, Administrator & Founder Member
National Concern for Healthcare Infections & Patients for Patient Safety Champion England, WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety
• the patient perspective on what works to reduce Surgical Site Infection
• how to involve and engage patients in reducing SSI in practice
• case studies and examples of good practice
12.50 Question and answers followed by Lunch and exhibition
14.00 Wound Management: understanding the risk factors for SSI
Louise Dineley, Head of Patient Safety with Judy Elliott Tissue Viability Nurse, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
• developing and implementing screening assessment in practice
• assessment tools: identifying individuals at risk of SSI’s
• educating and training non specialist staff
• our experience and developments in Kent
14.30 Implementing a Surgical Site Infection Care Bundle
Sue Smith, Director of Infection Prevention and Control, and Director of Nursing and Patient Safety, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
• delivering a change package for SSI’s: the care bundle approach
• implementing, measuring and maintaining compliance with the SSI Care Bundle
• supporting the care bundle approach with root cause analysis of cases
• towards zero and understanding what is avoidable and unavoidable: the impact of the Surgical Site Infection Care Bundle
15.00 Improving safety and team working in theatres
Mr Hugh Rogers Senior Associate and Consultant Urologist, The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
With Mr Richard Berrisford, Consultant Surgeon, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust & Productive Operating Theatre Pilot Site
• delivering a reliable operating theatre: ensuring what should happen happens every time
• focusing on the team and the non technical skills
• a proactive approach: involving theatre staff in improving patient safety systems and identifying error potential in theatre
• safety as a driver for system change
15.30 Questions and Answers followed by Tea and Exhibition
16.00 Lean in the operating theatre
John Woodruffe, Head of Healthcare Development, The Manufacturing Institute
• lean principles explained
• how lean can help to improve infection control practice
• standardising infection control clinical practice across an organisation
• developing the culture for SSI control – case studies
16.30 The cost of surgical site infections: building the business case for safety
Dr Heather Shearer, Deputy Director of Service Development, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust & Fellow The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
• two methods for identifying the cost of surgical site infections (with examples from cardiac surgery)
• share experiences of estimating the cost of interventions to reduce surgical site infections
• learning from elsewhere in the UK and the US
17.00 Question and answers & close