Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) Conference & Workshops

Part of the BSAC OPAT Initiative

Hannah Kershaw

Hannah stared one of the earliest OPAT services in 2003 at the Royal Free Hospital, starting with haematology patients before expanding to the rest of the hospital. After recruiting a nursing support the service was relaunched in 2006/7.
the service specialising in facilitating patients and nominated administrators to reconstitute & administer parenteral medications at home, empowering patients and facilitating a wider range of treatment options.

Having been in the early prescribing wave she has routinely prescribed for OPAT and the Chronic Infection Clinic patients for over 15years. She worked with HEE on materials to assist the new DS & DPP.

She has given lectures both nationally and internationally in the fields of OPAT, haematology and MDS. Having previous been on the editorial board of an MDS journal. She has published papers and presented posters at conference in the fields of OPAT.

Away from OPAT her post graduate qualifications include and MSc in cancer studies with a thesis, “A Retrospective audit on autologous bone marrow transplants”. She has a LLM Qualifying Law Masters Degree, and a further MSC in Law Business and Management, encompassing the Legal Practice certificate. She has also enrolled in a ClinDip in Menopause Medicine. She had volunteered at a legal drop-in clinic for over a decade and can often be found either riding her motorbike or translating code into knitting.

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