Hot topics announced for DECON UK: what’s lurking in your sink?

Following the success of the conferences held in 2022, 2023 and 2024, DECON UK is back for the fourth year running with the 2025 conference, taking place at the National Conference Centre, Birmingham on Wednesday the 19th of March 2025.

Jointly run by The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, this year’s conference is themed around ‘DECON for the future’ covering important topics which are vital to the future of best practice within the decontamination and infection prevention sector.

As with previous events, DECON UK 2025 aims to provide a high quality of educational content to delegates, with a comprehensive programme featuring experts from all areas of the decontamination sector. Look forward to hearing from the following speakers this year:

  • Martyn Wilkinson
  • Mark Garvey
  • Linda Cooper
  • Sharon Fox
  • Phil Norville

Just some of the confirmed topics for this year’s event include:

  • Basics of Decontamination
  • What’s lurking in your sink? Past problems, present challenges and future technologies
  • Decontamination of Ultrasound Probes

DECON UK 2025 will be a valuable learning resource to all those who work within, or have an interest in, decontamination, sterilisation, and infection prevention and control. This year’s programme will be of particular interest to the following professionals:

  • Sterile Services Managers
  • Sterile Services Technicians
  • Decontamination Leads
  • Theatre Nurses
  • Clinical Scientists
  • Infection Prevention and Control Practitioners
  • Facilities Managers
  • Endoscopy Staff

You can find out more about this year’s programme here.

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