Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) Conference & Workshops

Part of the BSAC OPAT Initiative

Regional Workshop: Glasgow

28th May 2020

Local Facilitator and Chair:

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

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
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
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

1615
Close

Registration

BSAC member – 10% discount across all of the above with the following code BSAC2019

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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