Council agenda

BSAC / European Wound Management AMR Collaborative
A paper for Council to consider
1 Background
Following exploratory discussions at ECCMID 2014 in Barcelona, BSAC and the European Wound
Management Association (EWMA) formally launched a joint antimicrobial stewardship collaborative at the
25th Conference of the EWMA held 13-15 May at Excel, London. The collaborative was launched at a joint
session at the conference and was oversubscribed, attracting 400 participants, with many more unable to
gain entry. The 2 societies also collaborated on a joint session at the 2016 EWMA Conference, 11-13 May,
Bremen, Germany.
2 BSAC/EWMA Working Group
A short-lived working group was established to develop a joint position paper on antimicrobial stewardship
in would management. The paper Antimicrobial Stewardship in Wound Care: A British Society of
Antimicrobial Chemotherapy/European Wound Management Association Position Paper has been submitted
and is currently being considered for free access publication by the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
3 Proposals for future collaboration
The collaboration has been valuable, pragmatic and productive and the proposal is that the two societies
continue and extend their collaboration as follows:
EWMA, 2017 Amsterdam: Collaborate on development of a paper on non-antibiotic antimicrobials for
wound management (Rose Cooper is working on this with EWMA).
Joint dissemination of outcomes of each society’s publications.
Development of joint e-learning modules.
Working with EWMA in discussing AMR policy based on the Dutch AMS policy, brining UK policy to the
fore also.
Possible joint stand-alone educational events going forward if need is evident.
4 Action
To consider the above proposals and offer comment and additional suggestions for collaboration.
Dilip Nathwani
President
June 2016
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