Based on the survey on 1,000 hospitals in 33 countries, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) estimates that that on any given day, one in 18 patients in a European hospital has healthcare-associated infection (HAIs). Most the countries (26 out of 33) reported the major three types of HAIs: pneumonia and lower respiratory tract infection, surgical site infection and urinary tract infection.

The estimated number of patients in UK acquiring HAIs is approx. 300,000 a year, according to a report by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). It costs the NHS approximately £1 billion a year, and £56 million of this is estimated to be incurred after patients are discharged from hospital. NHS has now adopted no-tolerance policy towards spread of HAIs.

After the success of congress held 2016 and 2017, MarketsandMarkets is organizing 3rd Annual Infection Control, Sterilization and Decontamination in Healthcare Congress, scheduled for 21st & 22nd February 2018 in London, UK aiming at providing platform to experts from hospitals, academia, and government institutions discussing the innovations, challenges, and future aspects of infection control, decontamination, and sterilization.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND ?
Surgeons, Doctors, Professors, Researchers, and Faculty from Hospitals and academic institutions related to:

• Infection Control Department
• Director Infection Prevention and Control 
• Assistant Director Infection Prevention and Control 
• Microbiologist
• Risk/Governance Manager
• Junior Doctor
• Lead Nurse Infection Prevention and Control
• Senior Lecturer/Lecturer
• Matron / Nurse
• Infection Prevention and Control Nurse/Practitioner 
• Consultant Nurses / Specialists

Sterile Services Department (SSD) and Decontamination Department

• Head
• Manager/ Lead
• Deputy Manager/Quality Management Representative
• Coordinator
• Supervisors
• Team Leaders
• Technicians / Engineers

Endoscopy Unit

• Director
• Gastroenterologist
• Head/ Manager
• Nurse