Eastwood Park’s 2017-18 training dates now available
2019-20 calendar now available
New for the coming year:
- new water hygiene training for capital projects
- enhanced fire safety portfolio
- new IOSH Managing Safely training
- new short courses on medical equipment
Our decontamination and infection control courses reflect the latest NHS and BS EN guidance and cater for delegates working to all the regional variations within the UK.
Courses are available across a range of equipment including steam sterilizers, large porous load sterilizers, washer disinfectors, endoscope reprocessors and bench-top sterlizers.
Regulatory compliance
Our decontamination portfolio reflects the guidance applicable across all UK health authorities including BS EN requirements, CfPP and regional HTMs.
Eastwood Park, Falfield, was formerly the NHS national training centre for healthcare engineering and now, as an independent company, we are the leading provider of technical healthcare engineering training in the UK.
Decontamination trainers
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Bruce Garbutt
Decontamination & Infection Control
Bruce Garbutt is Eastwood Park’s resident decontamination and infection control trainer.
Having managed people and operations under extreme circumstances within the armed forces, Bruce is adept at responding to our delegates' training needs, backed by an extensive technical knowledge.
Prior to Eastwood Park, Bruce enjoyed a 30 year career in defence aerospace engineering, with experience in frontline maintenance, quality assurance, design and development, technical authoring and co-ordination of high value projects.
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Sylvia Martin
Decontamination & Infection Control
Sylvia Martin’s career spans 25 years, playing a central role in developing and delivering Eastwood Park’s Decontamination Lead course.
As a highly experienced Decontamination and Sterile Services Manager, Sylvia brings extensive knowledge to her training, encompassing: project management for developing business cases; the design and build of decontamination facilities; and management of full decontamination services including endoscopy and medical equipment.
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Terry Easy
Decontamination & Infection Control
Terry Easy has been employed in the decontamination sector for approaching 40 years and is an Authorising Engineer in Decontamination.
He began as a Service Engineer, moving on to become a regional Sterilizer Engineer and then joining the British Sterilizer Company as Service Director.
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Mark Walker
Decontamination & Infection Control
Mark Walker is an experienced medical device decontamination professional and Authorising Engineer (Decontamination). He has several years' experience managing a sterile services department servicing two major London hospitals, as well as experience in auditing to ISO 13485, endoscopy and sterile service departments.
Mark leads our CSSD teaching delivery to sterile service technicians at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre in Saudi Arabia and is one of our decontamination & infection control trainers.
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Andrew Birch
Andrew is a practising validation engineer in both the healthcare sector and the pharmaceutical industry with 30 years’ experience, Andrew is also AE(D) for a number of English NHS trusts and as such has experience in auditing and provision of advice on all aspects of decontamination.
Andrew also has experience in Quality Management Systems and compilation of validation protocols to pharmaceutical standards. He is also an Authorizing Engineer (Decontamination) and member of IHEEM.
