CSC Annual Scientific Meeting
CSC: highlighting top priorities in decontamination
The Central Sterilising Club Annual Scientific Meeting provides an excellent learning opportunity for all those involved in decontamination. With a focus on extending knowledge and improving practice, this year’s event promises to provide a platform for discussion around the key challenges ahead, as well as reflections on lessons learnt. CSJ provides an insight into the hot topics being discussed.
The Central Sterilising Club (CSC) holds two educational events every year, both being accredited for continuing professional development (CPD), which is currently organised through the Royal College and Pathologist’s scheme. The programme is submitted for review and an appropriate number of CPD points allocated to the content. The first of the CSC events is a two-day Annual Scientific Meeting which held in the Spring. This year, it takes place at the Crowne Plaza, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 3-4 April 2023. The event comprises a formal programme of
lectures, from invited speakers, and a selected number of corporate presentations, which combine to cover a broad range of hot topics. It also includes the ‘Kelsey Lecture’ which was established in 1980 through a donation made by Dr. Jos Kelsey to enable a guest lecturer of international repute to be invited to speak at the conference. This year, the Kelsey Lecture covers:
‘Sterilisation and decontamination in low resource settings: Tales from the frontline’, presented by Joost Hopman, a medical director and consultant microbiologist at the Radboud University Medical
Center in the Netherlands. Hopman acts as a consultant for Doctors without Borders (Médecins sans Frontières) Amsterdam. He is an advisory board member of the Infection Control African Network (ICAN) and a board member of the Dutch IPC section of the Netherlands Society of Medical Microbiology (NVMM). During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hopman also served as a member of the WHO Environment and Engineering Control Expert Advisory Panel (ECAP) for COVID-19, the WHO ad-hoc COVID-19 IPC expert group and the Federation Medical Specialists (FMS) Guideline development expert group IPC, the Netherlands. His research interests focus on the epidemiology and prevention of healthcare- associated infections, new innovative methods of improving implementation of prevention interventions as part of patient safety programmes in both high- and low- resource settings, and the impact of the hospital built environment on prevention and patient safety. As with previous years, there is set to be an engaging debate designed to entertain, inform and provoke discussion. This year, the theme is: ‘This house believes that manufacturers’ instructions are restrictive and detrimental to instrument reprocessing’. Sharon Fox, head of decontamination, sterile service contract & endoscopy decontamination at University Hospital Birmingham NHS, will argue the case for the statement and Andrew Bent, lead benefit risk evaluation assessor: toxicological safety, decontamination and infection control, will argue against. Another key highlight of the programme will include a thought-provoking discussion by Neil Alexander, national investigator, from the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB). He will look at the key findings, lessons to be learnt and recommendations from the HSIB’s high-profile investigation into the decontamination of surgical instruments.
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