Healthcare Skills Training International Supports Global Paediatric Simulation Conference with CPD Accreditation

Healthcare Skills Training International (HSTI) is providing formal CPD accreditation for the IPSS 2026 conference programme, in support of the International Paediatric Simulation Society (IPSS) and its annual global gathering.

IPSS 2026 is the world’s largest meeting dedicated exclusively to paediatric and perinatal simulation. Physicians, nurses, researchers, educators, and allied health professionals attend from across the globe, making it one of the most significant gatherings in simulation-based education.

Over four days, delegates take part in a programme covering clinical decision-making, team performance, and the application of simulation to the care of infants and children.

Advancing Education to Improve Patient Outcomes

Simulation has earned its place in modern clinical training because it works. It gives clinicians the opportunity to practise difficult scenarios, make decisions under pressure, and build both technical and non-technical skills without risk to patients.

The IPSS 2026 programme reflects that in its design. Workshops, oral presentations, and collaborative sessions address problems that practitioners face in practice, not just in theory. One workshop, for instance, looks at how simulation environments can be designed to reflect principles of equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility — recognising that the training context shapes clinical behaviour just as much as the content does.

CPD accreditation with HSTI gives delegates a formal record of that learning, and gives their employers and professional bodies confidence in the standard of the event.

Education as a Shared Purpose

HSTI was founded on the straightforward principle that professional education and training supports clinicians to  deliver safe  patient care.

Diane Irvine, Chief Executive of HSTI, said:

“Conferences such as IPSS are important in our ever increasing virtual environment  because they bring practitioners together to share what works and advance education in ways that formal training alone cannot. We are glad to support programmes with the rigour and reach that IPSS demonstrates. The current  pace of change in healthcare means that standing still is not an option  for clinicians or for the educators who support them.”

Simulation, collaboration, and education will remain central to this progress. Supporting IPSS is part of how HSTI contributes to higher standards of professional development and, in turn, safer patient outcomes .