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One-day conference for perioperative practitioners; programme of expert speakers, industry-leading exhibitors, and networking opportunities.

The AfPP Regional Conference in Manchester on Saturday March 1st 2025, is a unique opportunity for perioperative practitioners to come together, share expertise, and explore the latest developments shaping the dynamic perioperative field. It will cover local issues and topics relevant to perioperative professionals in the Manchester area.

In today’s healthcare landscape, the demands placed on perioperative teams are greater than ever. Whether it’s adopting innovative surgical technologies, championing patient safety, or fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, your role is critical to delivering optimal outcomes for patients. This conference is designed to empower you with the knowledge, skills, and inspiration to continue excelling in your practice.

Throughout the day, you will have access to insightful keynote sessions, interactive workshops, and engaging discussions led by some of the most respected voices in perioperative care. Our agenda covers topics that resonate with the challenges and opportunities you face every day.

This conference is also a celebration of shared commitment to excellence in perioperative care. Take this opportunity to network with industry-leading exhibitors and like-minded professionals to exchange ideas and reconnect with the passion that drives you to make a difference in the lives of patients. Gain 5 CPD hours.

We are welcoming both our current members and non-members to all our events.

Let’s make this regional conference a memorable and enriching experience for all!

Join the Institute of Government & Public Policy at the Fifth Annual Operating Theatres Show 2025 Show to discover more about the future of operating theatres in the NHS. The event will explore the latest technology, efficiency improvements, and initiatives on how to work towards a greener future.

This event is free to attend event for surgeons, theatre practitioners and healthcare leaders across NHS Trusts, Foundation Trusts, and ICS services. Use the booking code FREE-CSJ at the checkout to secure your free place.

You can view the programme here - https://igpp.org.uk/event/The-Operating-Theatres-Show-2025/agenda

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust jointly bring you DECON UK 2025!

DECON UK is back for the 4^th year and is expected to host over 100 healthcare professionals from the decontamination sector.

This informative FREE event will cover a wide range of topics, including the following:

• Environmental room decontamination, technologies and the future
• What’s lurking in your sink? Past problems, present challenges and future technologies.
• Infection prevention and risk management: protecting our patients using Trophon2 technology
• Decontamination in the austere environment
• Study to remove cracked implantable devices on theatre trays

You can explore the full programme here.

In addition to the educational component of the day, this event will also showcase the products and services of commercial companies within the decontamination and infection prevention and control sectors, highlighting how they can aid in the everyday, working lives of our delegates.

Taking place at the National Conference Centre in Birmingham on 19^th March 2025, the event will be of particular interest to sterile services managers, decontamination leads, GP’s, theatre nurses, infection control and endoscopy staff.

Places are limited, so we recommend booking early to avoid disappointment. You can register here

If you have any questions, please call the events team on 01506 292 042 or email events@fitwise.co.uk 

We are delighted to let our members and non members know that we will be hosting the 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) in the beautiful city of Chester at the Crowne Plaza Chester hotel.

The hotel is a city centre location overlooking the Welsh Hills, with ample parking and less than 2 miles from the train station. The CSC committee are trying something new this year and giving our delegates the choice of where they would like to stay. We have secured a hotel discount rate and rooms are being offered at £129 per night by clicking through this link . As Chester is a popular city destination we recommend you book early.

Ticket bookings are now available. If you are a member you will need to sign in to your account and if you are a non member you will need to register which will then allow you to add tickets to your shopping cart and check out using an online payment.

Please contact our event facilitator via email at events@centralsterilisingclub.org and for all other queries use the website contact form .

An overview of the provisional programme is below.

We look forward to seeing you in 2025!

One-day conference for perioperative practitioners; programme of expert speakers, industry-leading exhibitors, and networking opportunities.

The AfPP Regional Conference in Newcastle on Saturday 26th April 2025, is a unique opportunity for perioperative practitioners to come together, share expertise, and explore the latest developments shaping the dynamic perioperative field. It will cover local issues and topics relevant to perioperative professionals in the Newcastle area.

In today’s healthcare landscape, the demands placed on perioperative teams are greater than ever. Whether it’s adopting innovative surgical technologies, championing patient safety, or fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, your role is critical to delivering optimal outcomes for patients. This conference is designed to empower you with the knowledge, skills, and inspiration to continue excelling in your practice.

Throughout the day, you will have access to insightful keynote sessions, interactive workshops, and engaging discussions led by some of the most respected voices in perioperative care. Our agenda covers topics that resonate with the challenges and opportunities you face every day.

This conference is also a celebration of shared commitment to excellence in perioperative care. Take this opportunity to network with industry-leading exhibitors and like-minded professionals to exchange ideas and reconnect with the passion that drives you to make a difference in the lives of patients. Gain 5 CPD hours.

We are welcoming both our current members and non-members to all our events.

Let’s make this regional conference a memorable and enriching experience for all!

IPC 2025 will examine the multiple challenges to infection control facing the healthcare community. The Conference will examine emerging threats, vaccine developments, POC Diagnostic advances and IPC within the healthcare setting.

We will also look in-depth at issues including catheter related infections, UTI’s and AMR. Advances in wound care and SSI’s will be presented. In addition, conference will develop ideas in a workshop day centred around the challenges of IPC in a mental health setting.

IPC 2025 takes a holistic look at infection prevention and control and will also present the most advanced developments and products aiding prevention and elimination of healthcare acquired infection. This is an essential meeting for healthcare professionals and we look forward to hosting you in 2025.

Join us for the Decontamination and Sterilisation Conference 2025 this April, where excellence meets innovation. Building on the phenomenal success of our 2024 event, this year promises to be even more impactful. Our partners have praised the event, stating that they achieved more in one day than at other events spanning multiple days, thanks to the high quality of our delegates and the focused, productive atmosphere.

• Innovative Sterilisation Techniques: Explore cutting-edge methods and technologies.
• Healthcare Regulatory Compliance: Stay ahead with the latest regulations and standards.
• Best Practices in Healthcare Settings: Stay ahead with the latest regulations and standards.
• Risk Management: Learn to identify and mitigate risks in decontamination processes
• Net Zero and Sustainability: Discover eco-friendly practices and solutions in sterilisation.

Registration is now open for the Scottish Intensive Care Society Conference 2025

This year's annual conference will aim to advance knowledge, support and representation.

Our programme will offer a fantastic clinical line up of speakers covering clinical and research updates, moral and ethical dilemmas, hands on practical sessions and an MDT specific parallel programme. After some rather challenging years we are perhaps more importantly offering the opportunity to reconnect with each other. We will be hosting the social event of the Scottish Critical Care Year with a magnificent dinner and ceilidh.

Enhancing Perioperative Care: A Collaborative Approach to Anaesthetics Scrub and Recovery Practice

The AfPP Regional Conference in Plymouth on Saturday 10th May 2025, is a unique opportunity for perioperative practitioners to come together, share expertise, and explore the latest developments shaping the dynamic perioperative field. It will cover local issues and topics relevant to perioperative professionals in the Southwest region.

In today’s healthcare landscape, the demands placed on perioperative teams are greater than ever. Whether it’s adopting innovative surgical technologies, championing patient safety, or fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, your role is critical to delivering optimal outcomes for patients. This conference is designed to empower you with the knowledge, skills, and inspiration to continue excelling in your practice.

Throughout the day, you will have access to insightful keynote sessions, interactive workshops, and engaging discussions led by some of the most respected voices in perioperative care. Our agenda covers topics that resonate with the challenges and opportunities you face every day.

This conference is also a celebration of shared commitment to excellence in perioperative care. Take this opportunity to network with industry-leading exhibitors and like-minded professionals to exchange ideas and reconnect with the passion that drives you to make a difference in the lives of patients. Gain 5 CPD hours.

We are welcoming both our current members and non-members to all our events.

Let’s make this regional conference a memorable and enriching experience for all!

We are excited to welcome you to our annual ACP Conference and Networking Exhibition. Taking place on the 19^th and 20^th May 2025, this unmissable event will be of particular interest to bladder and bowel nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists, urology nurses, doctors, specialist nurses and all allied healthcare professionals with an interest in continence care. Look forward to sessions on a wide range of topics including:

• Physiotherapy perspectives on bladder pain
• Probiotics and bladder health
• Advancing constipation management for people with Learning Disabilities
• Reducing hospital acquired incontinence associated dermatitis
• Equality, gender reassignment and pelvic health

We are grateful to our excellent speakers without whom we would not have been able to put together an engaging and thought-provoking programme, which will be available in full shortly.

We also look forward to welcoming our industry partners to our extensive company exhibition, which will offer new innovative products and practical solutions in the field of continence care.

Register here to join us for this inspirational and worthwhile learning experience!

The two-day event will be held at the Hilton, Newcastle Gateshead and is aimed at specialists and consultants in infection, as well as trainees, including microbiology, virology, clinical infectious diseases, public health, antimicrobial pharmacists, biomedical scientists and infection prevention and control practitioners.

We hope that as many people can join us in person as possible and everyone is welcome at both days. The Programme will be available shortly, but topics include:

• HIV management strategies
• Launch of BIA Malaria Guidelines
• One Health drivers of antimicrobial resistance in low-resource settings
• Commissioning NHS Infectious Diseases services - fit for the future
• Use of biomarkers in sepsis

For registration visit: https://fitwise.eventsair.com/2025-bia-spring-meeting/registration-and-fees

Abstract submissions are invited for oral and poster presentations. The closing date for abstracts is 28 February 2025. Visit: https://fitwise.eventsair.com/2025-bia-spring-meeting/event-abstracts to submit your abstract and find out more.

If you have any questions, please call the events team on 01506 292 042 or email events@fitwise.co.uk 

Taking place on the 8 – 9 August at the University of Warwick, the AfPP Annual National Conference is one of the largest gatherings of perioperative professionals in the UK. The event brings together professionals from all areas of perioperative practice and promises a dynamic lineup of insightful keynote speakers, expert-led workshops, packed exhibitor areas, and interactive sessions designed to inspire, inform, and empower attendees.