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Annual Report 2016
stewardship. This took place on Friday 4th March in Birmingham. The event was attended by 80 delegates and had a
waiting list of over 20 people. Feedback from delegates and sponsors was very positive. Sponsors were Astellas,
Eumedica, IC Net and MSD.
UKCPA Clinical Pharmacy Training Day
At the Clinical Pharmacy Training Day in November 2016 in Manchester, Adel Sheikh presented on Back to basics: an
update of infection and Emma Cramp presented on Antimicrobial resistance: how can we avert this threat to
healthcare?
UKCPA Autumn Conference, November 2016
Diane Ashiru-Oredope ran a worksession on how to use social media professionally and Tejal Vaghela presented on how
to develop and present research and audit at conferences.
Federation of Infection Societies Conference, November 2016 in Edinburgh.
UKCPA PIN hosted a parallel session chaired by Jacqueline Sneddon entitled Implementation of the antimicrobial
stewardship aspects of the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Strategy, which included sessions on:
Update on ESPAUR
Dr Susan Hopkins, Consultant in Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Public Health England, UK
Surveillance of antimicrobial use and resistance in Scotland
William Malcolm, Pharmaceutical Adviser, Health Protection Scotland, UK
Examples of using surveillance data for quality improvement
Tejal Vaghela, Team Leader Pharmacist (Antimicrobials & AAU), West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
Hayley Wickens presented on stewardship of new antimicrobial agents at a BSAC session and several other PIN
members presented oral or poster presentations.
The Clinical Pharmacy Congress, April 2016, London
Jacqueline Sneddon hosted an RPS session talk on Antimicrobial stewardship – how pharmacists are helping to combat
antimicrobial resistance. Kieran Hand discussed Hospital treatment of community-acquired pneumonia and acute
exacerbations of COPD: the evidence, while Emma Cramp spoke about Innovation within Antimicrobial stewardship.
ECCMID, April 2016, Amsterdam
The European Congress on Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Conference (ECCMID) took place in Amsterdam
on 8th-10th April 2016. Some of the PIN committee members who presented posters are Diane Ashiru-Oredope,
Jacqueline Sneddon, Phil Howard, Mark Gilchrist and Tejal Vaghela. Please see appendix for poster titles.
European Association of Hospital Pharmacists, March 2016, Vienna
The European Association of Hospital Pharmacists Annual Conference held in Vienna during March 2016 was attended
by Jacqueline Sneddon, Mark Gilchrist and Hayley Wickens. They each ran workshop sessions on optimising
antimicrobial therapy and the role of pharmacists in addressing AMR.
Research & Evaluation
Committee member Jon Urch wrote articles for all issues of In Practice during 2016.
Hayley Wickens and Laura Whitney judged the Astellas Antimicrobial Award 2016.
Laura Whitney peer reviewed an application for the UKCPA research grant.
Diane Ashiru-Oredope, Jacqueline Sneddon and Emma Cramp judged some of the entries for the Antibiotic Guardian
Awards.
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