The afternoon sessions of each meeting day consist of case studies that participants rotate through in order to share experiences and to support application of the learning from the morning lectures.
Below are the case studies that formulated the basis of these conversations in order to support you beginning your own discussions.
Within the next few months we will be drafting responses to the questions posed in these case studies, please bear in mind that these are only just a start and you will have more that you want to add based on your practice.
Launch Meeting – 2016
Case Study One
Commissioning (water and ventilation)
Case Study Two
Outbreaks (water and ventilation)
Case Study Three
Monitoring of water within healthcare settings
Case Study Four
The Health Technical Memoranda (HTMs) and how to apply them
Case Study Five
Surface sampling and surface decontamination
The Role of Surfaces in Cross Transmission of Infection – 2017
Case Study One
Environmentally mediated bacterial outbreak
Case Study Two
How to take a surface sample (practical session)
Case Study Three
Environmentally mediated viral outbreak
Case Study Four
What do these results mean? Interpreting screening results
Case Study Five
Judging cleanliness – how do you determine if the environment is safe
The role water and water borne organisms play in healthcare associated infection – 2018
Case Study One
Do you worry about your water system?
Case Study Two
Commissioning a new building, what steps do you need to take?
Case Study Three
The challenges of developing a water management plan/policy
Case Study Four
Reacting to national guidance
Case Study Five
Interpretation of routine Pseudomonas aeruginosa results
The role of ventilation in controlling airborne organisms which play a role in healthcare associated infection – 2019
Case Study One
Interpretation of commissioning and maintenance ventilation reports
Case Study Two
Taking air samples, what are you options and what do the results mean?
Case Study Three
Investigation of the role of ventilation during outbreaks
Case Study Four
Making risk assessments linked to exposure from airborne organisms, what questions to ask?
Case Study Five
Supporting ventilation control in healthcare facilities, what is required?
Designing and building for infection prevention – 2021
Case Study One
TBC
Case Study Two
TBC
Case Study Three
TBC
Case Study Four
TBC
Case Study Five
TBC
Case Study Six
TBC
If you have extra responses or write ups/questions you’d like to share please let us know
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