Specialised Ventilation in Healthcare Premises
(creating a suitable environment and its role in infection control)
Tuesday 3 – Friday 6 November 2015
COURSE PROGRAMME
Day 1 – Tuesday 3 November 2015
Chairperson: Margaret Barrows, Theatre Manager, Methley Park Hospital
Time
Session Title
Speaker
08.45 – 09.15
Registration and coffee
09.15 – 09.45
Introduction and overview of course
Malcolm Thomas, Consultant Engineer
Healthcare ventilation - key issues
Malcolm Thomas
09.45 – 10.30
1
Questions
10.30 – 10.45
10.45 – 11.45
Coffee
2
Airborne infection – primary concepts
Katharine Scott,
Consultant Microbiologist, Harrogate
District Hospital
Questions
11.45 – 12.45
3
Ventilation – basic principles
Malcolm Thomas
Questions
12.45 – 13.30
Lunch
13.30 – 14.30
4
Illustration of specialised ventilation 1
The operating department
Malcolm Thomas
14.30 – 14.45
5
Introduction to workshop 1
Margaret Barrows,
Operating Department Manager,
Methley Park Hospital
Margaret Barrows
Craig Mackintosh
Simon Dale, Consultant Anaesthetist,
Chesterfield Royal Hospital
Malcolm Thomas
and Team
Margaret Barrows
14.45 – 16.15
WORKSHOP 1 – The operating suite
(Tea / Coffee taken during workshop)
16.15 – 17.25
17.25 – 17.30
Workshop feedback session
(With roving mike)
Summary of day 1 and notices
19.30
Evening meal in dining room
Day 2 – Wednesday 4 November 2015
Chairperson: Craig Mackintosh
Time
Session Title
Speaker
09.00 – 09.05
Introduction to day 2
Craig Mackintosh
Lester Stuart,
Stuart Solutions Ltd
James Dagnel, Camfill
09.05 – 09.40
6
Air handling units – minimum standards
09.40 – 10.10
7
Filtration
10.10 – 10.25
Coffee
10.25 – 10.55
8
Air distribution
Joe Hughes,
Clean Air Solutions (UK)
10.55 – 11.20
9
Operating theatre panels
11.20 – 12.00
10
llustration of Specialised Ventilation 2
Pathology laboratories, mortuaries and
post mortem suites
Andy Smith,
MAT - Medical Air Technology
Iain Banks, Consultant Pathologist
12.00 – 12.45
11
Illustration of Specialised Ventilation 3
Clean rooms:
Pharmacy Aseptic rooms and Sterile
Supply Unit IAP rooms
12.45 – 13.45
13.45 – 16.30
Lunch
12
5 Stations.
1st station
40 mins
Rest 30 mins
Introduction to workshop 2
WORKSHOP 2 – equipment circus
Display of Air Flow measuring instruments
Demonstration of Blower door
Demonstration of Aero biology equipment
Demonstration of UCV test methodology
16.30 – 17.30
Joe Hughes,
Clean Air Solutions (UK)
13
Particle counting and challenge testing
HEPA filters
(Tea / Coffee to be taken during workshop)
Air quality assessment
17.30 – 17.35
Summary of day two and notices
19.30
Evening meal in dining room
Margaret Barrows
Alan Gilbert and Mr Stacey Ward,
BSRIA Instrument Solutions
David Jobes, Stockton Quality Control
Laboratory
Richard Webster, Commissioning &
Validation Services
Andy Worsick, DOP Solutions
Craig Mackintosh
Craig Mackintosh
Day 3 – Thursday 5 November 2015
Chairperson: Margaret Barrows
Time
Session Title
Speaker
09.00 – 09.05
Introduction to day 3
Malcolm Thomas
LEV systems – inspection and testing
Endoscopy cleaning and storage rooms
Safety cabs
Fire Dampers
Malcolm Thomas
09.05 – 09.50
14
09.50 – 10.30
15
10.30 – 10.50
John McEwan, Hulley & Kirkwood
Consulting Engineers Ltd
Coffee
10.50 – 11.30
16
AE(V) Audits and APV roles
Malcolm Thomas
11.30 – 12.15
17
Validation and verification
Colin Gaffney, Validation Engineer
12.15 – 12.45
18
Theatre refurbishment: a users
perspective
Simon Dale, Consultant Anaesthetist,
Chesterfield Royal Hospital
12.45 – 13.45
13.45 – 14.00
Lunch
19
Introduction to workshop 3
17.25 – 17.30
WORKSHOP 3 – Validation and audit
exemplars of reports
(Tea / Coffee to be taken during workshop)
Workshop feedback session
Critique of reports
llustration of Specialised Ventilation 4
Minimal invasive procedures and minor
operations
Summary of day three and notices
19.30
Evening meal in dining room
14.00 – 15.45
15.45 – 16.30
16.30 – 17.25
20
Colin Gaffney
Team
Craig Mackintosh
Margaret Barrows
Day 4 – Friday 6 November 2015
Chairperson: Malcolm Thomas
Time
Session Title
Speaker
09.00 – 09.05
Introduction to day 4
Craig Mackintosh
Malcolm Thomas
10.05 – 10.35
Illustration of Specialised Ventilation 5
Patient isolation facilities
(HBN 4: Supplement 1, Associated
Research & Negative pressure guidance)
Introduction to the multi choice question
exam
MCQ Exam
10.35 – 11.00
Coffee (and marking of papers)
09.05 – 10.00
21
10.00 – 10.05
22
11.00 – 11.30
23
Guest Speaker: The Theatre users
viewpoint
11.30 – 12.15
24
MCQ answers and review of exam paper
12.15 – 12.45
25
Hot topics and course summary
12.45 - 13.00
Malcolm Thomas
Alistair Smith, Theatre
Service Manager, Wigan and Leigh
NHS Foundation Trust
Malcolm Thomas and Craig
Mackintosh
Malcolm Thomas
Close of course and issue of CPD certificates
Buffet lunch
Please note that, although the organisers remain devoted to the programme specified, they reserve the right to vary
the programme in detail if required to do so by factors beyond their control.