IPS Strategic Plan

Our strategic plan revolves around four key goals that will shape everything we do over the three years:

Support: Empowering our members to deliver the highest quality and safest care.
Improve: Advancing evidence-based infection prevention and control (IPC) practices, surveillance, and care across all health and care settings.
Engage: Ensuring equitable access and support for a diverse and multidisciplinary workforce in all health and care settings.
Impact: Influencing and shaping IPC education and policy to drive positive change.

By mid 2025, we will launch a new website, membership database, and increased support for our Branches and Special Interest Groups (SIGs).
By 2026, we aim to grow our membership and refresh our educational events, all shaped by member input.
By 2027, we will diversify our income streams to ensure financial sustainability.

To achieve our goals, we will focus on three key pillars:

Inclusion: Engage with members, healthcare communities, policymakers, and people receiving care to ensure IPS is a trusted source of IPC information and is inclusive of all voices.
Progress: Ensure our activities are well-researched, planned, resourced, and supported by our Branches, SIGs, and business groups, with a clinical and professional approach.
Sustainability: Address environmental impacts, support the IPC workforce, and maintain good governance to ensure the IPS’s long-term viability.