Antibiotic Guardian, London

The UK 5 Year Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy 2013 to 2018, focuses on antibiotics and sets out actions to slow the development and spread of antimicrobial resistance.  This is supported by the Public Health England Antibiotic Guardian pledge Campaign, that calls on everyone in the UK, the public and healthcare community to become antibiotics guardian by choosing one simple pledge about how they will make better use of these vital medicines.

In support of the above Public Health England is hosting Antibiotic Guardian London.  The programme for the meeting is below – already attracting a range of influential speakers.   Please join us as we continue to address and identify solutions to the challenges that antimicrobial resistance poses.

To register for this event, which is free to non commercial delegates – simply email paul@4allofus.org.uk Private delegate fees will apply.

PROGRAMME

09:30     Registration and networking

10:00     Chairs opening comments

Professor Anthony Kessel, Director of International Public Health, Responsible Officer
Public Health England (Confirmed)

10:10     Antibiotic Resistance Overview

Dr Diane Ashiru-Oredope, MPharm DipClinPharm MRPharmS, Pharmacist Lead PHE AMR

Programme and chair Antibiotic Guardian campaign.

10:30     IPC Overview

Karen Shaw, Infection Prevention and Control Lead, PHE AMR & HCAI Programme (IPC Workstream), Public Health England (Confirmed)

10:50     European action

Dr Saskia Nahrgang, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Communicable Diseases, Health Security, and Environment (Confirmed)

11:10     The Government’s stance

Professor John Watson, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Department of Health (Confirmed)

11:30     Building laboratory capacity, surveillance networks and response capacity

Dr Mike Turner, Head of Infection and Immunobiology, Wellcome Trust (Confirmed)

11:50     Question and answers

12:10     Refreshments and networking

13:00     Welcome Back

Dr Diane Ashiru-Oredope, MPharm DipClinPharm MRPharmS, Pharmacist Lead PHE AMR

Programme and chair Antibiotic Guardian campaign (Confirmed)

13:10     Healthy Eating “The Route to Health and Wellbeing”

Peter Stevenson, Chief Policy Advisor, Compassion in World Farming (Confirmed)

13:20     NICE guideline

Dr Jacqueline Sneddon MRPharmS FFRPS, Project Lead for Scottish Antimicrobial Prescribing Group, Chair – Pharmacy Infection Network – United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association (Confirmed)

13:40     Implementing SSTF in practice – a local case study

Danielle Stacey, Specialist Antimicrobial Pharmacist, The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust (Confirmed)

14:00     Clinical Networks for AMR

                Elizabeth Beech, AMR & HAI Project Lead, NHS England (Confirmed)

14:20     “Both alarming and predictable” – how do you solve a problem like Super-gonorrhoea?

Since 2011 we have known a sexual infection capable of causing chronic debility in men and women, blindness in children and enhancing HIV transmission is evolving resistance to effective treatment. What do                clinicians do when faced with such an outbreak? Why is the internet as much of a hindrance than a help?

Dr Janette Clarke BSc(Hons) MB ChB (Hons) DFFP FRCP, President, British Association for Sexual Health & HIV (Confirmed)

14:40     The next steps

Dr Diane Ashiru-Oredope, MPharm DipClinPharm MRPharmS, Pharmacist Lead PHE AMR Programme and chair Antibiotic Guardian campaign (Confirmed)

15:00     Event close

*Draft agenda subject to timing and speaker changes

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