Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) Conference & Workshops

Part of the BSAC OPAT Initiative

OPAT Regional Workshops 2026

June-September 2026

Our 2026 in-person OPAT Regional Workshops will be held in the following locations

19 June, Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons, Glasgow – see archives
24 June, IET, Birmingham – see archives
4 September, Paediatric OPAT, 20 Cavendish Square, London
11 September, 20 Cavendish Square, London

This series of workshops is RCPath CPD approved (5 credits per workshop).

Registration details below.

Presentation slide sets and recordings from our previous workshops are available in the workshop archives.

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For any questions regarding this workshop series, please contact Esme Carruthers.

The BSAC OPAT Regional Workshops are supported by the pharmaceutical industry through sponsorship and exhibition packages. Sponsorship is restricted to the purchase of exhibition space. Sponsors have had no influence over the development of the scientific programme, including the selection of speakers or meeting content. Any sessions developed with sponsor input will be clearly identified within the programme. A full list of confirmed sponsors for the BSAC OPAT Regional Workshops is available here

 

0930
Registration
1000
Welcome & introduction
Sanjay Patel, Southampton Children’s Hospital - View Bio
Session One: The changing landscape
Chair: Sanjay Patel, Southampton Children’s Hospital
1005
Update on the BSAC OPAT programme
Mark Gilchrist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - View Bio
1020
IVOS in children –and which patients no longer require IVABs at all! Are oral antibiotics as safe as we think they are: what should we be looking out for within CoPAT services?
Ally Munro, Southampton
1045
Can long-acting antibiotics replace traditional OPAT?
Rachel Atherton, Bristol - View Bio
1100
The role of elastomerics in pOPAT and how easy are they to obtain?
Lucy Hinds, Sheffield Children's Hospital - View Bio

1115
BREAK

Session Two: Delivering excellent paediatric OPAT
Chair: Sanjay Patel, Southampton Children’s Hospital
1145
Workforce – what should the pOPAT workforce look like in 2026?
Helen Green, Southampton Children’s Hospital - View Bio
1155
Vascular access – ensuring parity of IV access services across UK children’s hospitals
Katja Doerholt, St George's Hospital London
1205
Digital advances in OPAT
Mark Gilchrist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - View Bio
1215
Can regional pAMS networks enable rollout of OPAT to DGHs?
Sanjay Patel, Southampton Children’s Hospital - View Bio
1225
Discussion

1300
LUNCH

Session Three: Learning from each other
Chair: Sanjay Patel, Southampton Children’s Hospital
1400
The Irish experience
Eimear Kitt, Dublin
1420
Benchmarking of activity and outcomes – data from all tertiary pOPAT centres
1450
Moving away from activity metrics to quality metrics -what should we be measuring?
o Family-reported outcomes/experience
o Metrics to enable cost saving to be quantified
o CoPAT metrics

1520
BREAK

1540
Nurse filled elastomerics and new pathways
Shay Khan, Whittington - View Bio
1600
Interactive case 1: OPAT in the child on haemodialysis
1610
Interactive case 2: A severe MRSA infection, community acquired
Katja Doerholt, St George's Hospital London

1620
Summary & closing remarks
1630
Close
0900
Registration
0925
Welcome and introduction
Mark Gilchrist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - View Bio
Carolyn Hemsley, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust - View Bio

Session One: Staphylococcal Management
Chair: Carolyn Hemsley, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
0930
Update from SNAP and implications for OPAT/COPAT?
Anna Goodman, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust - View Bio
0945
Experience from Chelsea & Westminster on using fresh filled cefazolin infusers
Stephen Hughes, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - View Bio
1000
Experience from Northwick Park on using flucloxacillin infusers
Tumena Corrah, Northwick Park Hospital - View Bio
1015
Discussion re: SNAP & OPAT/COPAT

Session Two: Palliative OPAT
Chair: Ana Garcia Mingo, Whittington Health NHS Trust & Cristina Suarez, Barts Health
1030
Managing challenging cases and reflections
Ana Garcia Mingo, Whittington Health NHS Trust - View Bio
Cristina Suarez, Barts Health - View Bio
1100
Q&A

1115
BREAK

Session Three: Doing things differently
Chair: Mark Gilchrist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
1145
Nurse filled elastomerics and new pathways
Shay Khan, Whittington Health NHS Trust - View Bio
1200
Teicoplanin TDM comparing daily vs 3 x week administration
Emefa Ansah, Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - View Bio
1215
Complicated Patients, unusual regimens
Sophie Collier, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - View Bio
Hannah Kershaw, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - View Bio
Annette Vanheim-Wallace, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - View Bio
Winnie Magambo-Gasana, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
1230
Q&A

Session Four: Compliance / GPRs
Chair: Sarah Logan, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
1245
How good are we – Quick review of London OPAT centres vs new GPR’s?
Mark Gilchrist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - View Bio
1255
Looking at the gaps in ID (medical) training vs curriculum for OPAT
Carolyn Hemsley, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust - View Bio
1305
Communication between community nurses and hospital – criteria, time frames
Marina Basarab, St George's University Hospitals
1315
Q&A

1330
LUNCH

Spotlight on…Monitoring complex oral antimicrobial therapy
Chair: Mark Gilchrist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust & Carolyn Hemsley, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
1415
Introductory talk: How to monitor complex orals efficiently, pragmatically and safely
Fiona Robb, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde - View Bio
1435
Experience from daily practice in monitoring orals
Dr Antonia Scobie, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospitals NHS Trust - View Bio
Tariq Azamgarhi, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospitals NHS Trust - View Bio
1455
Facilitated discussion: Oral monitoring – what should we be doing?
1530
Group feedback

1600
Summary and close
Mark Gilchrist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - View Bio
Carolyn Hemsley, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust - View Bio

Registration

Registration is now open for this series of in person workshops. Please register for your chosen location.

Registration fees
BSAC Members (NHS/not for profit) £50
Non-BSAC Members (NHS/not for profit) £75
Commercial £200
LMIC concession / Student £30

We are offering free registration to nurses, please contact Esme Carruthers to register.

Please contact Esme Carruthers for any queries regarding this workshop series.

London (paediatric)

4 September

London

11 September

Sponsorship

Glasgow sponsors

Birmingham sponsors

London paediactrics sponsors

London sponsors

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