IPC Breakfast Forum
Creating infection-resilient healthcare spaces: from design to decontamination.
📆 7th May 2026, 9:30am-12:00pm
📍SDS Hub, London or Remote
Join us at the SDS Hub for an expert-led event exploring how healthcare environments can be designed and managed to improve infection prevention and control.
Healthcare spaces play a vital role in reducing the spread of infection. From the design of clinical environments to the materials, surfaces and systems used within them, healthcare interiors must support effective decontamination, regulatory compliance and safe patient care.
This event will bring together infection prevention specialists, healthcare professionals and design experts to examine how the built environment can contribute to safer, more resilient healthcare settings.
Through expert presentations and a panel discussion, we will explore the real-world challenges of infection prevention in healthcare, including environmental contamination, decontamination processes and the role infrastructure plays in supporting infection control.
Attendees will gain practical insights into how healthcare facilities can improve infection compliance and resilience through collaboration between clinicians, infection prevention professionals and designers.
Key learning points.
At the forum, participants will:
- Identify key infection prevention challenges within healthcare environments, including environmental contamination and decontamination limitations.
- Understand how healthcare design and interior materials influence infection control compliance, including cleanability, durability and patient safety.
- Explore practical strategies for creating infection-resilient healthcare spaces through collaboration between the panel and audience.
Who should attend and why?
We're inviting industry leaders from NHS Trusts, architects, healthcare professionals and infection prevention control specialists to join us for:
- Exclusive industry insights: Gain expert perspectives and key takeaways on the challenges of decomtamination within healthcare environments.
- Panel discussions with industry leaders: Listen to leading voices from NHS Trusts, architecture, and infection control as they discuss key challenges and their wider impact.
- Networking opportunities: Exchange knowledge, share experiences, and establish valuable partnerships.
Tea, coffee, and a light breakfast will also be provided.
Spaces for the in-person event are limited, please select when registering if you would like to attend in-person or remotely - a confirmation will be emailed to you once registered.
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