Ian Blenkharn

Ian Blenkharn has published extensively and lectured widely, both at home and abroad, on aspects of hospital hygiene, the prevention and control of infection in hospitals, and healthcare waste management. Ian maintains an extensive private practice focussing on aspects of general, occupational and environmental microbiology, together with pharmaceutical microbiology, infection control, product design, development and evaluation, audit, and training in the healthcare waste, and environment sectors.

Mr J Ian Blenkharn

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He has acted for several key public- and commercial-sector clients in the UK and elsewhere, as an advisor on aspects of healthcare waste management and waste disposal. Local, regional and central government agencies together with educational, charitable and aid agencies feature among an international client base.

Ian is member of the Editorial Board of The Open Waste Management Journal, The Journal of Infection Prevention, the Journal of Electronic Health and of The International Journal of Engineering, Science and Technology (IJEST), an editorial review panel member for the journals Waste Management, The British Journal of Infection Control, and Waste Management and Research, and an occasional reviewer for The Journal of Hospital Infection, The Journal of Environmental Management, Public Health, The Journal of Public Health (Oxford), The British Journal of Surgery, Critical Reviews of Environmental Science and Technology, BioMed Central (BMC) Public Health, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, The International Journal of Engineering, Science and Technology, The Journal of Urban and environmental Engineering, The International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management and the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health.

A member of the Society of Biology, of the Hospital Infection Society and the Infection Prevention Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science and of the Royal Society for Public Health (formerly the Royal Institute of Public Health), Ian is a Chartered Biologist and Chartered Scientist, and a Graduate Member of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management.  He is Registered with the UK Register of Expert Witnesses, and has several years experience in the preparation of legal reports, briefings and Expert Witness reports, including work in the Crown and High Court, Planning and Public Inquiry.

Ian is an Accreditation Panel member and a Fellow of The Royal Society for Public Health (formerly the Royal Institute of Public Health). In addition, he was an Associate of the Healthcare Commission, UK, until its dissolution on 31 March 2009.

  

 

 

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