Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) Conference & Workshops

Part of the BSAC OPAT Initiative

OPAT Regional Workshops 2025

June-September 2025

Our 2025 in-person OPAT Regional Workshops will be held in the following locations

6 June, Austin Court, Birmingham
27 June, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow
4 September, *new for 2025* Paediatric OPAT, 20 Cavendish Square, London
5 September, 20 Cavendish Square, London
12 September, Hilton Hotel, Belfast
24 September, Aerospace Bristol, Bristol

The core programme and registration details can be found below. Please note that programmes will be different for each location to reflect local priorities.

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

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

This workshop series is RCPath CPD accredited.

0930
Registration
1000
Welcome and introduction
1005
BSAC OPAT Initiative overview – Where are we now?

Local discussion (Part 1)
1020
Presentation 1
1040
Presentation 2
1100
Presentation 3
1120
Q&A

1130
Break

Local discussion (Part 2)
1200
Presentation 4
1220
Presentation 5
1240
Presentation 6
1300
Q&A

1310
Lunch

Spotlight on....
1400
Endocarditis in OPAT

1545
Summary & closing remarks
1600
Close
0930
Registration
1000
Welcome and Overview
Andrew Seaton, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde - View Bio
1005
BSAC OPAT Initiative overview – Where are we now?
Mark Gilchrist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - View Bio
1020
BSAC OPAT Good Practice Recommendations – a first look
Ann Noble, Monklands University Hospital, NHS Lanarkshire - View Bio

KEYNOTE LECTURE
1035
Developing the Virtual Hospital programme in Scotland
Graham Ellis, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Scottish Government

1050
OPAT activity and potential in NHS Scotland
Andrew Seaton, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde - View Bio
1105
Q&A

1130
BREAK

Moving points in OPAT
Chair: Ann Noble, Monklands University Hospital, NHS Lanarkshire
1200
Experience with continuous infusion antimicrobials
Fiona Robb, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
1215
Flow Navigation and remote monitoring – experience from Lanarkshire
Speaker to be confirmed
1230
Nurse led Penicillin Allergy Delabeling in OPAT
Claire Vallance, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde - View Bio
1245
What’s new in Lothian OPAT
Speaker to be confirmed
1300
Short course therapy for orthopaedic infection – implications for OPAT
Bruce McClintock, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
1315
Q&A

1325
LUNCH

SPOTLIGHT ON... Endocarditis
Chair: Chair to be confirmed
1415
OPAT and Endocarditis
Fiona Thorburn, Golden Jubilee National Hospital
1435
Discussion of local issues
1600
Summary & closing remarks
Andrew Seaton, Consultant in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde - View Bio

1615
Close
0930
Registration
1000
Welcome and introduction
Annette Clarkson, Lead Pharmacist Antimicrobials, OPAT and Infection control Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust - View Bio
1005
BSAC OPAT Initiative overview – Where are we now?

Local discussion (Part 1): OPAT cases and experiences- lessons learnt
Chair: Annette Clarkson, Lead Pharmacist Antimicrobials, OPAT and Infection control Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
1020
Lessons Learned from an MRSA Line Infection on OPAT
Alison Ellwood, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - View Bio
1035
Complexities of treating a non-adherent neurosurgical patient
Suzanne Carr, Clinical Nurse Specialist OPAT, University Hospitals Birmingham - View Bio
Debbie Johnston, Clinical Nurse Specialist OPAT, University Hospitals Birmingham - View Bio
1050
Reflections on our COpAT service journey - The UHDB Experience
Charlotte Fiori, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust - View Bio
1105
OPAT shared care across boundaries
Helena White, University Hospitals Leicester - View Bio

1120
BREAK

Local discussion (Part 2): Drug delivery in OPAT- reflections
Chair: Annette Clarkson, Lead Pharmacist Antimicrobials, OPAT and Infection control Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
1150
Dalbavancin - 5 year review
Julie Statham, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust - View Bio
1205
Near patient preparation: is it the answer to our elastomeric problems
Abi Jenkins, University Hospitals Birmingham - View Bio

1230
LUNCH

SPOTLIGHT ON...Endocarditis
Chair: Annette Clarkson, Lead Pharmacist Antimicrobials, OPAT and Infection control Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
1315
Endocarditis
Bethan Walsh, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust - View Bio
1400
Discussion on local issues/lessons learnt

1530
Summary of day & closing remarks
Annette Clarkson, Lead Pharmacist Antimicrobials, OPAT and Infection control Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust - View Bio
1545
Close
0930
Registration
0955
Welcome
Sanjay Patel, Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Southampton Children’s Hospital - View Bio
1000
BSAC OPAT Initiative overview – Where are we now?
Sanjay Patel, Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Southampton Children’s Hospital - View Bio

SESSION 1 : Embedding the principles of OPAT into paediatric H@H services (collaboration with H@H society)
1015
The H@H landscape across the UK
Zoe Tribble, Royal London Hospital
Christina Newbould, Matron, Children’s Hospital at Home, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust - View Bio
1030
National pAMS survey data
Emily Chesshyre, Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust
1045
IVOS in children – what is the evidence?
Sanjay Patel, Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Southampton Children’s Hospital - View Bio
1100
The impact of the BSAC common infection pathways
Zainab Ezimokhai, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
1115
pAMS network vision – empowering DGHs
Sanjay Patel, Southampton Children’s Hospital - View Bio
Charlotte Fuller, Leeds Children’s Hospital - View Bio
1130
Addressing the logistics of delivering H@H care - what can we learn from OPAT services
Ashifa Trivedi, The Hillington Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Helen Green, Southampton
1145
Neonatal OPAT
Ravi Mistry, Paediatric ID trainee
Jolanta Bernatoniene, University Hospitals Bristol

SESSION 2 : Updates in pOPAT
1200
The evidence supporting elastomeric use in children
Lee Shipman, Alder Hay Children's Hospital
1215
Parent administered OPAT
Helen Green & Max Hill, Southampton

1230
LUNCH

SESSION 3 : Special populations
1330
Infective endocarditis: the Necker Paris experience
Julie Toubiana, Necker-Enfants malades University Hospital
1350
Neonatal AMS – UK experience of IVOS for EOS and LOS
Harriet Aughey, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
1410
Febrile neutropenia
Bob Phillips, Professor of Paediatrics and Evidence Synthesis, University of York - View Bio

SESSION 4 Interactive cases & OPAT challenges
1430
Logistics of drug administration in the community
Christina Newbould, Matron, Children’s Hospital at Home, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust - View Bio
1445
Dalbavancin case and review of the UK pOPAT dalbavancin experience
1500
Additional complex cases - all centres

1530
Summary & closing remarks
1600
Close

Registration

Registration is open for this series of in-person workshops.

Registration fees:
BSAC Members (NHS/not for profit) £50
Non-BSAC Members (NHS/not for profit) £75
Commercial £200
Student £30
Please note, registration is free for nurses, please contact Esme Carruthers to register.

Please use the registration links below to register.

For any queries regarding registration, please contact Esme Carruthers.

Birmingham - 6 June

Glasgow - 27 June

London (paediatric OPAT)4 September

London - 5 September

Belfast - 12 September

Bristol - 24 September

Abstracts

Please submit your abstract(s) using the online submission form for consideration for POSTER presentation at the OPAT Workshops.

All accepted abstracts will be published in JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance

The deadline for abstract submission for the Glasgow workshop is 1700hrs BST on Friday 13 June 2025
The deadline for abstract submission for the London, Belfast, London (paediatric) and Bristol workshops is 1700hrs BST on Friday 8 August 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:

    1. a title;
    2. the full list of authors (in the order they should appear on the published abstract);
    3. all author affiliations (including institution, city and country for each);
    4. an initial statement of specific objectives of the study, unless this is given in the title;
    5. a brief statement of methods;
    6. a summary of the results obtained;
    7. 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.

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