Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) allows for medically stable patients to be discharged (or avoid admission completely) who require a course of intravenous antimicrobial agents. OPAT is a vital scheme that can prevent hospital admissions, reduce a patient’s length of stay in hospital through early discharge, plus reduce the risk of hospital acquired infections.
If you are thinking about setting up, or currently run an OPAT service, the BSAC will be hosting a National OPAT Conference online and in-person at the Royal College of Physicians, Liverpool, on 14 November 2025.
For all queries, please contact Esme Carruthers.
Registration and abstract submission is now open.
Registration is now open for this hybrid conference. Please select if you will attend in-person or virtually as part of the registration process.
Registration fees:
BSAC Members (NHS/not for profit) £80
Non-BSAC Members (NHS/not for profit) £100
Commercial £200
Student £25
Please note, registration is free for nurses, please contact Esme Carruthers to register.
Please use the registration link below to register.
Please submit your abstract(s) using the online submission form for consideration for POSTER presentation at the conference.
All accepted abstracts will be published in JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance
Poster submission deadline: 1700hrs BST on Friday 10 October 2025
Please note our Conditions of Submission:
Abstracts must be submitted by the deadlines stated above. Submissions received after this time may not be considered.
The first author should ideally be the presenting author. The presenting author must register for the conference and can attend either in-person or virtually.
PLEASE NOTE: It is the responsibility of the author(s) to provide printed poster(s) in A0 portrait for abstracts accepted for presentation.
All abstracts are to be submitted using the online submission form. Please use the Supporting documents button to upload your full abstract in a Word file that includes the complete abstract formatted as specified below.
Please do not include figures, tables or references in your abstract (these can be presented in your poster, or slides for an oral presentation, but the abstract should be text only).
By submitting the abstract you confirm, and on behalf of any co-contributors, the following:
You have secured the necessary permissions (and paid any associated fees) to reuse any third-party material included in the abstract.
You grant to JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance/BSAC, and by extension its publisher, Oxford University Press (OUP), the license:
a) to publish the final version of the conference abstract in JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance, and to distribute it and/or to communicate it to the public, either within the Journal, on its own, or with other related material throughout the world, in printed, electronic or any other format or medium whether now known or hereafter devised;
b) to make translations of the abstract and to distribute them to the public; to authorise or grant licenses to third parties to do any of the above;
c) to deposit copies of the abstract in online archives maintained by OUP or by third parties authorised by OUP; and
d) to administer subsidiary rights agreements with third parties for the full period of copyright and all renewals, extensions, revisions and revivals.
Format of Abstracts:
Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words and contain:
a title;
the full list of authors (in the order they should appear on the published abstract);
all author affiliations (including institution, city and country for each);
an initial statement of specific objectives of the study, unless this is given in the title;
a brief statement of methods;
a summary of the results obtained;
specific conclusions.
For example, standard headings are Background (optional), Objectives, Patients and methods (or Methods), Results, and Conclusions.
For any queries regarding abstract submissions, please contact Esme Carruthers.