Infection Prevention & Control Champions meeting

This Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Champion Network event is free and open to all nurses and healthcare professionals working in Adult Social Care who are interested in infection prevention and control.

Upcoming meeting on Thursday 27 February 2025, 2-4 pm.

Theme & Speakers

The theme is Gastrointestinal Infections and Outbreak Management.

Speakers include: 

• Liz Grogan, Deputy Director of IPC, Leeds Community Foundation Trust
• Kat Cotton, Senior Health Protection Nurse, Lincolnshire County Council and Lincolnshire Adult Social Care Providers.

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Summary of our most recent meeting

‘National Policy & Guidance updates’, Tuesday 22 October 2024

Featuring:

• Deborah Sturdy CBE, Chief Nurse for Social Care, DHSC;
• Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer, DHSC;
• Dr Joanna Harris, UKHSA Head of Infection Prevention and Control.

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Summaries of past events

• Summary – IPC Champions Network meeting 13 August 2024.
• Summary – Identifying and Preventing Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), 6 June 2024
• Summary – Parasitic Infections, 11 April 2024
• Summary – IPC Projects, 30 January 2024
• Summary – Oral Care, 26 September 2023
• Summary – Training and education in IPC, 27 July 2023
• Summary – National IPC Policy and Guidance, 23 March 2023
• Summary – Staff Resilience and Wellbeing, 25 January 2023
• Summary – Hydration and Infection, 28 July 2022
• Summary – IPC Network meeting 17 May 2022
• Summary – IPC Network launch 30 November 2021

Contact

If you have any questions about this event, please contact us at events@qni.org.uk.

For queries about the network, please contact Charlotte Fry.

Photo by Diana Polekhina on Unsplash.