The Worsley Suite
Worsley Park Marriott Hotel and Country Club,
Manchester, M28 2QT
Monday 1 April 2019
09:00 Registration and refreshments
10:00 Welcome and introduction by Val O’Brien, CSC Chair
10:30 Kelsey Lecture: Failure of cleaning and disinfection of endoscopes;
prevalence, impact and (future) solutions
Professor Margreet C. Vos, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
11:30 Tea and coffee
Chair: John Prendergast
12:00 Corporate presentation 1: The use of test soils and surrogate devices to validate
endoscope & surgical instrument decontamination
Gary Wright, Steris
12:30 Corporate presentation 2: Risk factor considerations for reusable wrap
Joy Markey, Clinipak
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Debate: This house believes that existing arrangements for external audit of decontamination quality management systems delivers critical assurance and value for money
Moderator: Alison Gee
For: David Pickard
Against: Paul Jenkins
15:15 Tea and coffee
Chair: Gillian Hill
15:45 Sterilisation of flexible endoscopes: take it or leave it?
Paul J Caesar, Tjongerschans Regional Hospital, Heerenveen, Netherlands
16:15 The medical device manufacturing program – low temperature hydrogen peroxide validation process
Damien Barrel, Advanced Sterilization Products
16:45 Final questions and close
17:00 Annual General Meeting
19:30 Mike Emmerson Drinks Reception
20:00 Annual Scientific Meeting Dinner, followed by Quiz hosted by Mike Bowden
Tuesday 2 April 2019
08:30 Registration and refreshments
Chair: David Jenkins
09:30 Biofilms and how to remove them
Dr Thomas Vanzieleghem, OneLife
10:00 Surfaces and surface disinfection: how clean is clean, how dead is dead?
Professor Bill Keevil, Southampton University
10:30 Tea and coffee
Chair: Karen Tweed
11:00 Role of the Principal Engineer and plans to update the HTMs
Mike Ralph, NHS Improvement
11:30 Cardio-pulmonary bypass and mycobacterium chimaera endocarditis:
a perfusionist’s perspective 2003-2019
John Campbell, Nottingham University Hospitals
12:00 Sustaining the NHS
Rose Gallagher MBE, Royal College of Nursing
12:30 Lunch
Chair: John Prendergast
13:30 Corporate presentation 3: ASP Sterrad ALLClear – the new rhythm of reprocessing
Damien Barrel and Stuart McGerty, Advanced Sterilization Products
14:00 Corporate presentation 4: TOE probe decontamination and disinfection
Speaker to be confirmed, Wassenburg
14:30 Tea and coffee
Chair: Gill Ellis-Pow
15:00 Evaluation of a new PCD – performance versus protein removal
Wayne Spencer, Authorised Engineer Decontamination
15:45 Registration for decontamination units – onwards and upwards
Fiona Kennedy, Applied Management Systems Limited
16:15 Close of meeting
Val O’Brien, CSC Chair