Healthcare Infection Society (HIS) Outbreaks Training Course
Nov
05
- LOCATION
- Healthcare Infection Society, Montagu House, 7E Wakefield Street, London, WC1N 1PG, United Kingdom
This course combines taught and practical sessions with opportunities for dialogue around outbreak management.
Date and Time:09:30 – 05/11/2026 to 16:30 – 05/11/2026
TOPICS COVERED
Whilst providing a sound foundation in the basics of outbreak management and investigations, the course also delivers specific sessions around agenda setting, constructing timelines, simple stats, case-control studies and writing press releases. The course also features a dedicated ‘table top exercise training experience’ involving a detailed scenario for delegates to work through based on an actual hospital outbreak.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This in-person course is suitable for senior members of infection control teams, who are currently working in, or planning to move into, a role leading HCAI outbreak management. The course is aimed principally towards combined infection trainees, medical microbiology, virology and infectious diseases trainees, clinical scientists registered on a HSST programme and senior infection control nurses. The aim of the course is to develop understanding and key practical skills in a structured management response to outbreak investigation.
SPEAKER
The course has been created and developed by Dr Tim Boswell, medical microbiology consultant and deputy director of infection prevention and control – Nottingham University Hospitals. Dr Tim Boswell will be leading the course on the day.
For more information, please contact: [email protected].
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