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Positive discussion and sharing of ideas on ways to improve antimicrobial stewardship in primary care at today's event #SAPG2024

This afternoon's session is all about the Nation Action Plan and the challenges for secondary care. Great discussion taking place in all our break-out groups #SAPG2024

Thank you to everyone who attended our event on Resetting Antimicrobial Stewardship in Scotland. Lots of enthusiasm and commitment across our primary and secondary care speakers and discussion groups, and lots of opportunities to share knowledge #SAPG2024

WAAW! World AMR Awareness Week special: The Scottish Antimicrobial Prescribing Group (SAPG). Who? What do they do? Tune in to find out: buzzsprout.com/1782416/episod… #antibioticguardian #KeepAntibioticsWorking #WAAW @sapgabx andrew seaton SANG @frankerr1F @Antibioticscot

🔥BALANCE RCT🔥 74 hospitals in 7 countries 3,608 patients A 7-day course of antibiotics for hospitalized patients with bloodstream infections was non inferior to 14d within a 4% prespecified margin for mortality at 90 days Brad Spellberg Todd C. Lee nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Prof Sir Brian Greenwood’s London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine retirement lecture on zoom. From science to clinical practice, public health and policy. Meningitis to Malaria. Amongst many many contributions- single dose oily chloramphenicol for meningococcal infection

NEW PODCAST! Jame attended the @bsacandjac.bsky.social OPAT conference, and in this episode he tells Callum all about it! Subcutaneous antibiotics! Delafloxacin! andrew seaton looking distinguished on the video call! WE’VE GOT IT ALL! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/id-…

Is it time for global harmonization of opat drug stability testing frameworks? Great to collaborate with ⁦⁦Jason Roberts⁩ ⁦Fekade B Sime⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦CRE RESPOND⁩ ⁦andrew seaton⁩ ⁦BSAC⁩ & many more - onto the next step! academic.oup.com/jacamr/article…

‘By standardising stability testing guidelines, we can broaden treatment options for patients with serious infections, improve clinical outcomes, advance antimicrobial stewardship, and reduce healthcare costs.’ bsac.org.uk/call-for-globa… Fekade B Sime Jason Roberts CRE RESPOND

After a brilliant first day, it's day two of the BSAC Winter Conference #Infection2024: Policy into Practice. For programme and details of joining us online see here: bsac.org.uk/infection2024/

Shazia Nazir #AMS Pharmacy Technician from Pharmacy Infection team wins the BSAC #infection2024 poster prize for her technician led IVOS work LTHPharmacyServices Leeds Teaching Hospitals APTUK Royal Pharmaceutical Society NHS North East & Yorkshire NHS England UKCPA Infection Committee 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Congratulations to BSAC for an outstanding 2 day Policy to Practice winter conference in the heart of London. Ready to meet the #AMR and #AMS challenges ahead in 2025 #infection2024

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the antimicrobial stewardship workforce in Scottish acute care hospitals—a qualitative study academic.oup.com/jacamr/article… Dr Valerie Ness Dr Jen MacDonald CPsychol Professor Kay Currie jacqui sneddon andrew seaton InfectionPrevention GCU Research Centre for Health (ReaCH) ASAP Group SANG SAPG #AMR

Global Antimicrobial Stewardship Scheme update: BSAC is delighted to announce that NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde) have been awarded GAMSAS level 3 accreditation bsac.org.uk/global-antimic…

Current practices in OPAT programmes: 🌍 multi-centre survey ⁦- variation exists - need to understand differences to drive improvement andrew seaton⁩ ⁦BSAC⁩ ⁦Fekade B Sime⁩ ⁦Jason Roberts⁩ ⁦James Pollard⁩ 🇦🇺 🇲🇾 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 academic.oup.com/jacamr/article…