2019 OneTogether Conference

The sixth annual conference for OneTogether will see the launch of our fourth Quality Improvement Resource, which is focused on maintaining asepsis. The conference is free to attend and brings together hundreds of clinicians from across the UK and further. Places are on a strictly first come, first serve basis and limited.

At the one and only annual event which brings together the AfPP, IPS, RCN and CODP, delegates will:

Learn about OneTogether and the latest evidence to reduce SSI.
Explore how asepsis and instrument management can impact SSI
Discover best practice examples to reduce SSI from hospitals across the UK.
Understand how to foster positive team relationships and their impact on patient outcomes.
Attend the third Small Steps Award ceremony and hear about the winning entries
Network with colleagues across the UK and Worldwide.

Enter the Small Steps Award

We are inviting health care professionals to enter our annual Small Steps Award. If you have undertaken steps to improve patient outcomes and reduce the risk of SSI, then we would like to celebrate your success.

Enter the awards before 30th September 2019 to have your chance in winning.

Enter the awards here

View our previous winners below to get insights for some inspiration.

2018 Award Winners

Leynie Lugtu

Leynie Lugtu, Senior Theatre Sister Trauma and Orthopaedic Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded a OneTogether Small Steps Award, 2018, for a project which established a quality improvement programme in surgery at Ashford and St Peters NHS Hospital Trust.

A multidisciplinary team was developed with the aim of reducing infection rates. Following an extensive review of the whole patient journey changes in practice were made and a reduction in SSI rates has been achieved. Bringing the team together to agree consistency in approach to care was crucial to this result.

Helen Richards

Helen Richards, Matron and Surgical Site Infection Surveillance Team at St Richards Hospital Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Chichester was awarded a OneTogether Small Steps Award, 2018, for a project which established a quality improvement programme in orthopaedic surgery.

The Trusts Philosophy is 'Patient First' and in January 2018, Helen was appointed to take the lead on the introduction of practice based on the One-Together programme. This ensured that the evidence-based Quality Standards were being undertaken throughout the patients journey pre, peri and post-operatively.

Workshops took place with representation from the operating theatres, surgical nurses, surgeons, clinical director, surgical managers, anaesthetists, purchasing, estates, facilities, decontamination, pharmacy, procurement and IP&C.

Key to improvement was acknowledging that not one thing matters but a multitude of actions contributes to reducing risk of infection, when applied consistently and appropriately.

Kelly Baptiste

Kelly Baptiste was awarded a OneTogether Small Steps award in 2018.

Kelly introduced the orthopaedic surgical speciality, an audit tool and schedule of assessment of proactive, utilising the OneTogether assessment tools.

A working group involving the multi-disciplinary team was established. Action plans and strategies were formulated to ensure the risk of surgical site infection is reduced. This approach led to an improved learning culture with increased education about SSI reduction practice for existing staff and new starters. Timely communication of surgical site rates has been achieved with a closer working relationship between theatre and infection prevention teams.

Kelly has seen consistency of care for patients improve and has received feedback that prior to this staff didn’t realise the impact small actions can have on patient outcomes.

Event agenda

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9:00	Register
9:30	Welcome	Rose Gallagher MBE Professional Lead Infection Prevention and Control/AMR Royal College of Nursing
9:45	Ng125: Surgical site infections: prevention and treatment NICE 2019 updates	Melissa Rochon Quality & Safety Lead for Surveillance Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
10:15	Using OneTogether resources: 2014-2019	Deborah Maria Xuereb Senior Practice Nurse Mater Dei Hospital, Malta
10:45	Tea/coffee
11:15	Surgical team & Infection Prevention working together	Helen Richards Surgical Site Infection Surveillance Team Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
11:45	Launch of 2019 resources: Asepsis guide Updates NICE 2019	Tracey Radcliffe Clinical Governance Lead Nurse Glan Clwyd Hospital: RCN representative for OneTogether
12:15	Instrument management: Where we are and challenges	Val O’Brien MSc FIDSc MIHM Chair Central Sterilising Club (UK) Specialist Healthcare Consultant
12:45	Lunch
13:45	Welcome back	Dawn Stott CEO The Association of Perioperative Practice (AfPP)
14:00	Practicing Asepsis	Lindsay Keeley Patient safety & Quality Lead The Association of Perioperative Practice (AfPP)
14:30	Small Steps Awards	Rose Gallagher and Dawn Stott
15:00	Improving and sustaining infection prevention practice	Julie Storr Director S3 Global Past president of IPS safesafersafest
15:30	Evaluation & Close

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