World Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Awareness Week Webinars 2024: 18-24 November 2024

The theme for the World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW) 2024 is “Educate. Advocate. Act now” and is a call to the global community to educate stakeholders on AMR, advocate for bold commitments and take concrete actions to confront AMR. For WAAW 2024, NHS England’s AMR Programme team will be delivering a series of daily educational webinars with experts covering a range of topics of interest to both Primary and Secondary Care audiences.  For further information and to register go to: World AMR Awareness Week 2024 | NHS England Events

Title: Do Once and Share – Introducing Prescribing Improvement Scheme templates to facilitate Antimicrobial Stewardship in Primary Care:

The UK National Action Plan for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – Confronting AMR 2024-29 – includes targets to safely reduce human exposure to antibiotics by a further 5% and to ensure that narrow-spectrum antibiotics comprise 70% or more of the total human antibiotic exposure burden.  Antibiotic prescribing data for England demonstrate considerable variation across general practice, suggesting potential opportunities for further improvement, building upon the success of the pre-pandemic period for reducing avoidable human exposure to antibiotics.

Working together with colleagues from ICBs, the Antimicrobial Prescribing and Medicines Optimisation (APMO) workstream of the NHS England AMR Programme has supported the development of a series of templates for antibiotic prescribing improvement schemes as a resource for ICBs that can be adapted and adopted according to local priorities.

The templates are designed to align to key antimicrobial stewardship priorities including: reducing unnecessary antibiotic exposure in children with respiratory symptoms; preventing future acute infection episodes in patients who experience recurrent infection (including exacerbations of COPD, acne and recurrent urinary tract infection); prescribing shortest effective course length; and safely reducing broad-spectrum antibiotic prescribing.

Join the webinar to learn more about the content of the templates and hear from some of the contributors about how the templates can support local quality improvement initiatives.

Who is this for: general practitioners and non-medical prescribers; PCN nursing and pharmacy staff; practice managers;

Note: Please block out the time in your own diary.  A joining link will be emailed to you 24 hours before the webinar.

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