
E-OPAT
@eopat
The Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (OPAT) project: dedicated to delivering high quality patient care closer to home
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#OPAT2020 live in 2 mins - Looking forward to a great meeting! BSAC Mark Gilchrist David Barr first up



Super talk by Andrew Davies on aseptic pharmacy review and how it dovetails the work undertaken by E-OPAT initiative - collaboration key to success! Look forward to more discussions Sanjay Patel BSAC andrew seaton

Julie Statham and Rachel Kenion SWIFT OPAT demonstrate #covid19 impact on referrals and service delivery - impressive flexibility and initiative! #opat2020




Thanks to Jason Roberts for joining E-OPAT #opat2020 conf discussing how we need global consensus re drug stability & how dose optimisation in opat is important! Collaboration key & BSAC delighted to be partnering with international partners andrew seaton @jamiesonce


Thanks to everyone for a fantastic virtual #OPAT2020 RCP UK OPAT alive and well and stewardship firmly embedded. Big thanks to Debbie Cockayne FCIM Tracey Guise and BSAC Mark Gilchrist Sanjay Patel - huge effort over a challenging year. See everyone at #opat2021 #staysafe

Fantastic talk by andrew seaton on evolution of #OPAT in UK & transferable lessons to ๐ฟ๐ฆ Good governance framework is critical & herein lies the rub for #LMICs - how different does it need to look c/f resource-rich countries? International Society for Infectious Diseases ReAct - Action on Antibiotic Resistance BSAC CIDRAP-ASP CDDEP


I've completed week 1 of the FutureLearn course 'OPAT'! I had no idea what it was before, still learning. Feeling quite proud to get through week 1 as a patient advocate anyway. A course worth attending ๐futurelearn.com/courses/outpatโฆ - ๐#BSACOPAT #AMR #AntimicrobialStewardship

Antibiotic Tweets Bug Pharmacist ๐๐งซ Tim Gauthier Debbie Goff ASP_MirandaS PharmD MPH๐จ๐ฆ Monica Mahoney Brad Crane Mark McIntyre, Pharm.D Conan MacDougall Marc H. Scheetz Erin McCreary Sam Aitken Emily Heil P. Brandon Bookstaver Susan Davis Melissa Johnson Brad Langford Todd C. Lee Diane Ashiru, PhD NHS NE&Yorks AMR - Philip HOWARD OBE Kerry LaPlante, PharmD, FCCP, FIDSA, FIDP Helen Newland Chris Bland The need for ๐ consensus re drug stability for antimicrobials used in OPAT - under recognised - hugely topical - different approaches in different countries - unify to increase access, increase narrow spec agents, decrease amr (where orals not indicated!) E-OPAT BSAC

Urge your MP to join our next meeting on May 11. We'll hear from Susan Hopkins PHE's Strategic Response Director for COVID-19 "Pandemic prevention & preparedness: how should the COVID response aid efforts to contain & control antimicrobial resistance?" appg-on-antibiotics.com/meetings-eventโฆ



Learn from experts ๐ง about the function, role and limitations of an #OPAT service ๐ฅ with FutureLearn. If you enjoy working on an engaging, interactive online educational platform, this course is perfect for YOU! Sign up now: #BSACOPAT bit.ly/3xwfkJi


"#OPAT is a cost-effective use of National Health Service resources for the treatment of a range of infections in the UK in patients who can be safely managed in a non-IP setting." New paper from Maria Dimitrova, Mark Gilchrist & andrew seaton: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/9/eโฆ #IDTwitter
