The healthcare laundry sector continues to debate current health service guidelines and the Tuesday afternoon session will discuss this with presentation on hygiene for linen services staff and Linen Standards – the implications, followed by an upadate on HSG (95)18.
Papers on Wednesday include Linen services — a national perspective, by Dr. Elizabeth Jones, the head of patient environment at the Department of Health. Mark Trout, Queens medical centre, and James Fisher, Healthtex Synergy, discuss market testing of a laundry contract the QMC way, followed by James Walker on the China syndrome.
Speakers on Thursday include Mike Palin on BTW’s safe system of access; Marcus Brindle, director, NHS PASA on the National Framework agreement for laundry services: and Paul Meads, operations director, Sunlight Services on the compliant processing of reusable theatre textiles. An exhibition will run for the three days of the conference. A gala dinner rounds off the social events on the Thursday evening.
