Joint Care Home Nurses Network & IPC Champions Meeting

The event is free and open to all nurses and healthcare professionals working in care homes and Adult Social Care who are interested in infection prevention and control in the UK.

Next meeting

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 2pm – 4pm

Speakers: 

• Professor Deborah Sturdy CBE, Chief Nurse Adult Social Care, will be giving a DHSC Adult Social Care update.
• Jude Robinson, Senior IPC Nurse Specialist at UKHSA, will update on UKHSA ASC IPC Guidance.
• Zoe Fry, Executive Director at The Outstanding Society, will present on the Vivaldi Social Care: Reducing Infections and Improving Lives project.

Programme

Programme – IPC & CHNN Joint Network meeting 20 May 2025

Summaries from previous CHNN meetings

• CHNN meeting summary – Public Health Impact of the Health and Social Care Workforce 27 March 2025
• CHNN meeting summary – ‘Research in Adult Social Care Nursing’ 29 January 2025
• CHNN meeting summary, ‘Best Practice in Catheter Care’ – 12 December 2024.
• CHNN meeting summary, ‘‘Delegation within Adult Social Care Nursing & update from Skills for Care’ – 17 October 2024 
• CHNN meeting summary ‘Sepsis’ – 21 May 2024
• CHNN meeting summary – 22 February 2024

Summaries of past IPC events

• Summary – IPC Champions Network meeting 27 February 2025  Gastrointestinal Infections & Outbreak Management
• Summary – IPC Champions Network meeting 22 October 2024 web. National Policy & Guidance updates (featuring Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer, DHSC)
• Summary – IPC Champions Network meeting 13 August 2024. To Glove Or Not To Glove
• Summary – Identifying and Preventing Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), 6 June 2024
• Summary – Parasitic Infections, 11 April 2024
• Summary – IPC Projects, 30 January 2024

How to book

To book your free place, click the “Book your free place now” button. The registrations close 90 minutes before the start of the meeting.

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