The HCF program is developed in close cooperation with Clean Hospitals®.
The HCF plenary program explores the current state of the art knowledge on healthcare environmental hygiene, as well as its future development. The coffee and lunch breaks provide possibilities to discuss and network with delegates and keynote speakers. In the afternoon, several tracks allow for deeper exploration into a number of key topics. Guided tours offer you the opportunity to see the most innovative solutions at the Interclean Amsterdam exhibition and to attend demonstrations at the Healthcare Cleaning Lab.
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Healthcare Cleaning Forum Programme: 12 May 2022
RAI Amsterdam, Forum
09:30 - 09:40 hrs
Welcome to the Healthcare Cleaning Forum
Speaker: Paul Riemens, CEO RAI Amsterdam.
“Healthcare environmental hygiene beyond COVID-19”
Co-chairs: Professor Didier Pittet and Professor Andreas Widmer.
09:40 - 10:00 hrs
Looking beyond COVID-19
Speaker: Professor Didier Pittet, Director of the Infection Control Programme at the University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Chairman for Clean Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare cleaning industry
• How a shortage caused a flooded market
• What to do about bad quality products
• Looking to integrating best practices as the way forward
10:00 - 10:20 hrs
Evidence-based interventions for improving patient safety
Speaker: Alexandra Peters, Scientific Lead for Clean Hospitals, Infection Control Programme and World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety at the University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Why do interventions need to be evidence-based?
• How much evidence do we actually have?
• The effect of interventions in the environment on healthcare-associated infections
• Identifying the research gaps, and how to address them
10:20 - 10:40 hrs
New guidelines for a new era of environmental hygiene
Speaker: Martin Kiernan, Visiting Clinical Fellow, Richard Wells Research Centre, UK.
• A quick overview of the new UK and German guidelines on healthcare environmental hygiene
• Important changes, what they are, why they were implemented, and the involvement of stakeholders
• Differences in the approaches of the UK and German Guidelines
10:40 - 11:00 hrs
Break
11:00 - 11:20 hrs
The hospital environment as a source of Pseudomonas infections
Speaker: Juliëtte Severin, clinical microbiologist, medical coordinator of Unit Infection Prevention at Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Associate professor, The Netherlands,
• Pseudomonas spp. healthcare-associated infections remain a huge challenge for infection control
• Latest scientific insights on (the prevention of) transmission
• Possible future developments and the impact on healthcare environmental hygiene
11:20 - 11:40 hrs
The elephant in the room: how to balance sustainability with the need for efficacy and convenience
Speaker: Tracey Gauci, patron of the Association of Healthcare Cleaning Professionals and consultant IPC practitioner in Wales, UK.
• The attention COVID-19 brought to waste in healthcare
• The environmental impact of healthcare environmental hygiene has major implications for human and ecosystem health
11:40 - 12:00 hrs
Why we need innovation in environmental hygiene and how to foster it
Speaker: Pierre Parneix, Public Health and Hospital Hygiene Doctor at Bordeaux Hospital University Center (CHU), France.
• Technical progress is mandatory in healthcare
• Promising innovations in the field
• From a too-high cost to a perceived added value
12:00 - 12:30 hrs
Panel of speakers and closure of the morning program
Interactive question and answer session: Participants can join a live moderated session via SLIDO, and have their questions answered directly.
12:30 - 13:30 hrs
Lunch
13:30 - 16:00 hrs
Breakout-sessions
13:30 - 14:30 hrs
Breakout-session | Track 1: Cleaning and infection prevention - the importance of partnership
Location E102
Speakers:
Yvonne Taylor - CEnvCln. MBICSc | Global Head of Cleaning OCS Group
Christian Fischer - Infection Prevention Nurse I Hygiene Advisor Essity / Tork
• Good cleaning is active infection prevention
• Importance of cleaning standards in healthcare
• Putting the standards into practice
• Successful collaboration between cleaning and IP
13:30 - 14:30 hrs
Breakout-session | Track 2: Cleaning without detergents, is it safe?
Location E103
Speakers:
Paul Harleman - Application Engineer, Vileda.
Kristel Rietveld, infection prevention controller, Groene Hart Hospital, The Netherlands.
• Cleaning with only microfiber and water in healthcare environments is very well accepted in the Netherlands but less common in other countries
• Review of the safety and appropriate use of cleaning without detergents
• An overview of some of the advantages that cleaning without detergents has
13:30 - 14:30 hrs
Breakout-session | Track 3: Guided tours at Interclean Amsterdam
Location: Starting from the meeting point in the foyer
Tours by:
Chuchu Yu, Manager Scientific & Regulatory affairs at NVZ
Marten Kops, Technical Director at NVZ
The Healthcare Cleaning Forum is located within Interclean; the world’s leading tradeshow for cleaning and hygiene professionals. On the showfloor a special ‘Healthcare Cleaning’ segment offers innovative products and solutions by exhibitors, demonstrations on healthcare cleaning in a hospital setting and presentations and debates on ‘cleaning for health’.
The guided tours offer themed overviews of innovations in Healthcare Cleaning technologies. The tours are organised and guided by expert professionals of NVZ, the Dutch association for Disinfection and Machines, Detergents and Maintenance Products.
14:30 - 15:00 hrs
Break
15:00 - 16:00 hrs
Breakout-session | Track 4: Lecture and round table with international IPC experts
Location E102
Chair: Professor Didier Pittet
Introductory lecture
The three main challenges to prepare for the future of healthcare environmental hygiene
Speaker: Professor Andreas Widmer
Panelists: International IPC experts including Prof. Didier Pittet, Prof. Andreas Widmer, Dr. Pierre Parneix, Martin Keirnan, Juliette Severin, Tracey Gauci, Dr. Karin Ellen Veldkamp, and Wim van Vianen
Panelists will discuss:
• Key healthcare environmental hygiene issues that they think need more attention
• How industry can help address current challenges
• The discussion will include a live Q&A session
15:00 - 16:00 hrs
Breakout-session | Track 5: Biofilm, the next challenge in Infection Prevention
Location E103
Speakers:
Claire Khosravi, EU Infection Prevention Manager Diversey
Dr Ian K Hosein, Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Kings College Hospital, London
Bacterial biofilms persistent on dry environmental surfaces in healthcare facilities play an important role in the occurrence of healthcare associated infections. Differences between wet surface biofilms, planktonic bacteria and dry surface biofilms (DSB) and differences for disinfection.
Need for an official method for developing DSB for in vitro disinfectant efficacy testing.
Review of literature on bactericidal efficacy modeling the effect of drying times and temperatures on DSB development.
15:00 - 16:00 hrs
Breakout-session | Track 6: Guided tours at Interclean Amsterdam
Location: Starting from the meeting point in the foyer
Tours by:
Chuchu Yu, Manager Scientific & Regulatory affairs at NVZ
Marten Kops, Technical Director at NVZ
The Healthcare Cleaning Forum is located within Interclean; the world’s leading tradeshow for cleaning and hygiene professionals. On the showfloor, a special ‘Healthcare Cleaning’ segment offers innovative products and solutions by exhibitors, demonstrations on healthcare cleaning in a hospital setting and presentations and debates on ‘cleaning for health’.
The guided tours offer themed overviews of innovations in Healthcare Cleaning technologies. The tours are organised and guided by expert professionals of NVZ, the Dutch association for Disinfection and Machines, Detergents and Maintenance Products.