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 the remit of Patient Safety, during which time she focussed on the reduction in Device Related Hospital Acquired Bacteraemias (DRHABs), leading to her current role within vascular access, establishing the Wolverhampton IV/OPAT service in 2012. She was a member of the board advising on the RCN IV Standards which were published in December 2016.