Are you really allergic to penicillin? If not, you could be missing out on the right medicine when you need it. Chair of our Antimicrobial Expert Advisory Group Mark Gilchrist explains more: bit.ly/45c09F0 #Penicillin #WAAW #AMR Mark Gilchrist

#WAAW daily theme 🌍 Scale & spread of our 🌱#IVOST #metronidazole #AMS initiative in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde= ⬇️ IV use ⬇️ #plastic waste ⬇️ #Carbon 👣 ⬇️ costs & ⬆️ #nurse ⏰ saved 👇 academic.oup.com/jacamr/article… #AntibioticGuardian NHSGGC - Pharmacy Services Centre for Sustainable Healthcare NES Quality Improvement PharmacyDeclares!

1/Weekday 5 #WAAW #WAAW2023: #Antimicrobialresistance - #OneHealth and research **Environmental considerations, e.g disposal of antibiotics & environmental contamination. **One Health approaches to tackling AMR ** AMR research #AntibioticGuardian #KeepAntibioticsWorking

Today marks the last day of #WAAW – become an #AntibioticGuardian and let’s #KeepAntibioticsWorking together!

It was wonderful to have our friends from Ghana join us today to learn more about how Scotland has been working to safeguard antibiotics, and to hear about our plans for the future. We're delighted to have this opportunity to share knowledge between our two countries #SAPG15

Throughout #WorldAMRAwarenessWeek, there were 3 cross-cutting themes underpinning the daily themes across 5 days; ** Children, ** Sustainability, ** Tackling inequalities Blog from UK-PAS by Dr. Alicia antibioticguardian.com/waaw-blog-refl… #ESPAUR #AntibioticGuardian #WAAW2023 #WAAW

Today was the last day of #WAAW2023 with our go blue for AMR themed stand RUH Bath 🏥 raising awareness amongst staff. Thanks to everyone who visited us and entered our quiz to win a prize 🏆 and Sweet Little Things for their prize donation.

#WorldAMRAwarenessWeek 2023 ends with 195,691 #AntibioticGuardian pledges & 989 organisations. The AG campaign remains an always on campaign beyond #WAAW/#EAAD. 19,928 pledges since end of #WAAW 2022 Individually & collectively taking action to tackle #AntimicrobialResistance

Benedikt Huttner talking about World Health Organization (WHO) #AWaRe categories at BSAC #Infection2023 1/5 UKCPA Infection Committee BIA Diane Ashiru, PhD Kieran Hand PhD

Join us at 11am today for the Infection Network Journal Club With Nav Nagi from Imperial College NHS Trust

Fantastic collaboration around stability of aciclovir in elastomeric devices for OPAT.First antiviral of the programme! 🇦🇺 ⁦⁦Fekade B Sime⁩ ⁦Jason Roberts⁩ 🇬🇧 ⁦Conor Jamieson⁩ ⁦andrew seaton⁩ ⁦BSAC⁩ & those not on X⁦⁩ ejhp.bmj.com/content/early/…

We would love to hear from you! Please do reach out to help with this - see ⬇️ important to understand experiences

Our Antimicrobial Expert Advisory Group, in collaboration with BSAC, has released a statement to complement our interim standards for hospital at home and virtual ward pharmacy services, providing the antimicrobial context: bit.ly/3twO1BI

Really important piece around ensuring antimicrobial stewardship principles are adhered to within virtual wards - thanks to all for coming together on this Diane Ashiru, PhD Kieran Hand PhD andrew seaton David Jenkins Tracey Guise Louise Dunsmure (Louise Holroyd) 💙 Conor Jamieson Ceri Phillips & more! UKCPA Infection Committee

We are getting very close to 200,000 #AntibioticGuardian pledges 🙌🏾 🤞🏾 will capture it at 200,000

INVITATION: We are now working on a paediatric IV to Oral Switch Tool and Criteria #IVOST Please contribute to our consensus gathering through a short (12-min) survey. Closes 21 Feb forms.office.com/e/nP94XBvzmJ Pls cascade on & off social media 🙏🏾

#ESPAUR will feature at the British Infection Association @Biainfection 26th Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting by on Tuesday 7 & Wednesday 8 May at Mercure Bristol Grand Hotel. Registration via ctt.ec/Nf2fC+ #BIASpring2024

Another reason to celebrate today! We have been awarded a contract by NHS England to deliver 200 fully funded CPD places for pharmacists and techs working in critical care: hee.nhs.uk/our-work/pharm…. Education designed and delivered by UKCPA Critical Care Committee

UK #AMR National Action Plan for 2025-29 launched. BSAC BIA UKCPA Infection Committee Royal Pharmaceutical Society ESGAP_ABStewardship NHS North East & Yorkshire gov.uk/government/new…

Published Rx magazine: UK pharmacists have strong presence at international infectious disease ESCMID conference  #ESCMIDGlobal24 rxmagazine.org/uk-pharmacists… Thank you Orlagh Mark Gilchrist cc UKCPA UKCPA Infection Committee Royal Pharmaceutical Society #PharmacyResearch