The Infection Prevention Society (IPS) Welsh Branch would like to invite you to attend their annual conference on Tuesday 2nd July 2013 in Cardiff. This event is FREE to all IPS members and non-members to attend.

The theme of this conference will be preventing Surgical Site Infections and is entitled ‘All Sewn Up’. Sessions include: managing complicated surgical wounds, developing surveillance systems for ‘C’ section, demystifying the WHO check list and much more. To view the full programme please see below or visit the registration website by clicking on the link provided.

If you are an infection prevention and control practitioner, surgical or ward nurse, theatre practitioner, midwife or an infection prevention and control link nurse then this conference will be of interest to you. Please register now on the conference website by following this link: www.eventsforce.net/ipswnc2013

Programme Highlights:

• Opening Address
• Demystifying the WHO check list: Mike Fealey, NLIAH
• Chlorhexidine 2% – the evidence for surgical skin prep?: Anne Eka
• ‘normothermia’ and warming in preventing SSI: Dr Andrew Melling, Reader / Principal Lecturer – Adult Nursing, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria
• Managing complicated surgical wounds: Karen Kembery, Clinical Nurse Specialist – Tissue Viability, ABMU Health Board
• Developing surveillance systems for C section: Dr Wendy Harrison, Senior Scientist (SSI Programme Lead), Public Health Wales
• Understanding Group A Streptococcal (GAS) Infections: Dr Brendan Healy, Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Public Health Wales, Microbiology department, UHW, Cardiff
• Consequences of GAS – The patient story!: Doreen Marsden, Founder, The Lee Spark NF Foundation

For more information or to book CLICK HERE