CSC’s scientific conference to ‘push the boundaries’

Dr. Jimmy Walker, chair of the Central Sterilising Club, provides an insight into what the 2024 Annual Scientific Conference has to offer. He reveals that delegates will be “in for a big surprise”.

“If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise”. Those are the often repeated lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy that were added to the tune of “The Teddy Bears Picnic” in 1932, by the Irish songwriter, to the tune composed by John Walter Bratton, in 1907. While not as old as this tune, the Central Sterilising Club (CSC) is celebrating its 64th year in 2024

As a Club, the committee is grateful for your support and we serve to deliver what you, the members, want in our scientific meetings. The Club remains a not-for-profit organisation, where everyone is treated equally, and we continue to independently run our conferences without trade stands and commercial shows. 

However, do you ever get the feeling when you turn up to the latest conference that the ideas that are being thrashed about are the same-old, same-old? To quote a phrase from Henry Ford “If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.” 

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