Sue Rowlands is the IV/OPAT Team lead at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. She is a Registered General Nurse with many years’ experience as a senior nurse within the general and cardiac intensive care environment. Latterly she has held roles within Patient Safety, focussing on the reduction in Device Related Hospital Acquired Bacteraemias (DRHABs), and consequently set up the IV/OPAT Team in Wolverhampton in 2012 which she continues to lead.

Sue has also obtained post graduate qualifications in Patient Safety and Leadership and Organisational Research. She was a member of the board advising on the RCN IV Standards which were published in December 2016 and remains actively involved in the work of the Infection Prevention Society. She is currently the Co-ordinator of the Vascular Access Device Surveillance Workstream of the Device Related Infection Prevention Practices Collaborative (DRIPP), with which the IPS is strongly involved.