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11.00 Covid-19: the safety considerations associated with diagnostic testing and the vaccine response
Vin Poran, Health and Safety Executive

09.30 The importance of a thorough complaints investigation
Sarah May, Deputy Chief Executive, IBMS

09.00 The risk of not having a meaningful risk register
Nigel Coles, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Katherine Philpott
14.00 Use of thromboelastography in guiding blood component/product requirements Daniella Winterburn, South Tees Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 14.30 Patient Blood Management – what does this mean? Lisa McKain, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
15.00 British Society for Haematology information technology guidelines update Julie Staves, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Anne Lockhart 9.00 Network development – staffing issues
Rashmi Rook, formerly of Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
9.30 The challenges of multi-disciplinary staff competencies on a spoke site
Catherine Lorenzen, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
10.30 Major haemorrhage protocols
Dr Ric Procter, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
11.00 Major incident plans
Karen Madgwick, North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
11.30 Laboratory errors in Transfusion Dr Shruthi Narayan, Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT)
12.45 Antibody workshop
Jill Caulfield, NHSBT and Martin Maley, University of Sunderland

Chair: Catherine Lorenzen
14.00 Column agglutination technology Kerry Dowling,
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
14.30 Technology – solid phase Samantha Reynolds, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
15.00 Microarray technology
Dr Janine Robb, Quotient, Edinburgh
16.00 Regular transfusion –- the patient experience Dipika Shah, UKNEQAS Haematology and Blood Transfusion
16.30 The Cambridge Cellular Therapy Laboratory
Sarah Albon, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Peter Hitchcock Virus vaccines
14.00 Vaccine hesitancy – causes and effects Dr Rajeka Lazarus, University Hospital Bristol & Weston
14.30 Vaccine development and production
Tony Hitchcock, Cobra Biologics
15.00 Virus Vaccines
- SARS-CoV-2
vaccines – a regional perspective Dr Eleanor Powers, NHS England and Improvement, East of
England

Chair: Professor Sally Culter
9.00 Water quality and public health
- tracking human viruses in the aquatic environment Dr Kata Farkas, Bangor University, Wales 9.30 Update to enterovirus infections Dr Heli Harvala, NHS Blood and Transplant, Colindale
Transplantation
10.30 Transfusion and Transplantation
– Update on testing strategies
Vicki Maddox, NHS Blood & Transplant
11.00
Microbiological safety of organs for transplantation
– assessing the risk– benefit balance,
Dr Ines Ishiro-Lumb, NHS Blood & Transplant
11.30
Transplantation – virology clinical case studies
Dr Stephen Pettit, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Viral Infections Chair Jayne Harwood 14.00 Viral infections in risk groups
– infections in pregnancy
Dr Sheila Waugh, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
14.30 Viral infections in risk groups
– infections in childhood
Emma Davies, UK Health Security Agency
15.00 Viral infections in risk groups – infections in prisons Jayne Harwood,
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
16.00 Hepatitis
C - elimination of a treatable pandemic. Where are we now? Dr Brendan Healy, Public Health Wales
16.30 Rabies
Prof Anthony Fooks, Animal and Plant Health Agency

13.00 Leadership at all levels
13.30 Certificate of Achievement
– why take it and how it could help you
Lee Ford-Huggins, South Tees Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust
14.00 Flying the flag for degree apprenticeships - why everyone benefits
Sheri Scott and Claudia Pearse, Nottingham Trent University
14.30 Supporting support staff to undertake CPD
Kirstie Rice, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and Tracey Bennett, The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
15.00 Support staff in quality management
Elisabeth North, UKHSA and Bristol Infection Sciences Laboratory, North Bristol NHS Trust
16.00 Don’t overlook me! Recognising the skills and potential of support staff
Dr David Ricketts, Health Services Laboratories LLP
16.30 Making the most of your appraisal
Sue Alexander, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust