As part of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW), the Antimicrobial Prescribing and Medicines Optimisation (APMO) Programme at NHS England has arranged a series of five webinars which will be appropriately themed to match of the daily WAAW themes. Click on the titles below to book onto the sessions.
| Date November 2022 |
Session Title |
WAAW theme | Speakers |
| Friday 18th
12.30 – 13.30 |
‘Prevention’ | C. difficile infection
IPC update
|
Professor Mark Wilcox, Head of Microbiology and Academic Lead of Pathology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Lisa Ritchie, Head of Infection Prevention and Control, NHS England
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| Monday 21st
15.00 -16.00
|
‘Antimicrobials in clinical practice’ | Short Course Antibiotic Therapy
|
Dr. Brad Spellberg, Chief Medical Officer, Los Angeles County University of Southern California Medical Center
|
| Tuesday 22nd
12.30 -13.30
|
‘Improving your blood culture pathway: changing the culture’ | Optimising diagnostics around blood cultures
|
Dr Rosemary Stevenson, Science & Policy Lead, Office of the Chief Scientific Officer
Dr Jane Freeman, National Clinical Lead for AMR Diagnostics, NHS England
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| Thursday 24th
12.30-13.30
|
‘Antimicrobial resistance
and the environment/ sustainability and research’ |
IV to oral switch
Sustainability and AMR
|
Dr Naomi Fleming, Regional AMS Lead, East of England Region, NHS England
Laura Whitney, Regional AMS Lead, London Region, NHS England
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| Friday 25th
12.30-13.30
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‘Antimicrobials and
untrue or spurious allergy’
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Delabelling in children in
primary care BSACI guidelines for penicillin allergy delabelling
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Dr Nicola Jay, Consultant Paediatric Allergist, Sheffield Children’s NHS Trust
Dr Louise Savic, Consultant Anaesthetist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
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