Council agenda

will be able to request bespoke PPS templates using the national data set + add in their own
questions. A new template will be required for each bespoke PPS and the estimated cost of
development is up to 4 development days or £2,000 per template. Two options will be
available:
Trust to underwrite the cost and keep data locally.
BSAC, if it considers template of value to other Trusts and subject to available funding,
to underwrite the cost and make template available to all Trusts free of charge with the
proviso that centres using centrally funded templates allow notification of the survey
and results via the national dashboard (i.e. allow publication of results by BSAC).
(c)
Public Health England has adopted the NAS-PPS to submit data For the 2016/2017 ECDC
Point Prevalence Survey in acute care hospitals. Once the national data collection is
completed, BSAC will deploy the NAS-PPS across all Trusts and Boards in the UK for use as
training and benchmarking tool.
C/16/22/c
Working internationally: India, Russia, Africa and China
The President reported on the range of international educational and stewardship activities that the
Society is currently leading and working on. Council NOTED the following:
(a)
India: The report of the project Reducing Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Indian
Hospitals in support of the PM’s Global Campaign against AMR funded by the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office (FCO) Prosperity Fund has now been submitted to the FCO. The
overall objective was to support India in implementing Global and National strategies [e.g.
Chennai declaration] on tackling AMR with particular reference to education in relation to
antimicrobial prescribing. The report has scoped the requirement for educational solutions
for Indian hospitals to enable development and implementation of such interventions that
culturally and contextually relevant sand will help reduce AMR rates. The President and
CEO will discuss next steps with the FCO and report back to the next meeting.
(b)
Russia: BSAC attended and supported production of a post event website for the high-level
roundtable on policy, research, and collaboration in the field of AMR organised between the
UK and Russia by the UK Science & Innovation Network (SIN)-Russia of the British Embassy
in Moscow and the Interregional Association for Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial
Chemotherapy (IACMAC) in Smolensk (Russia). The meeting was held 17-18 December
2015 and brought together leaders from Russian and UK medical science, innovation
funders, along with academies, government departments and business to forge closer links
and to promote mutual understanding of each other’s organisations, research landscapes
and priorities. BSAC has submitted an application to the FCO to support a project similar to
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