Antimicrobial resistance is the greatest healthcare challenge of our time—be part of the solution.
Please find below links to the presentation from the 2025 BSAC Spring Conference
15 May 2025
SESSION ONE - Vaccine preventable diseases: Advances in paediatric and adult vaccinations
This video consists of the following presentations:
Innovation in immunisation: valuing the life-course benefits of immunisation
Charlotte Vernhes, Vaccines Europe
Vaccine-preventable diseases in children across higher and lower middle income settings
Professor Susanna Esposito, University of Parma
The role of vaccines to tackle AMR
Professor Angela Brueggemann, University of Oxford
Q&A
SESSION TWO - Invited lecture: In honour of the late Martin Skirrow
This video consists of the following presentations:
Resolving the Campylobacter conundrum and Campylobacter control
Professor Brendan Wren, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
SESSION THREE - What's new in...
This video consists of the following presentations:
HAP diagnostics: HAP-FAST, a randomised clinical trial
Dr Dan Wootton, University of Liverpool
Management of endocarditis - the MDT approach and new ECS guidance
Professor Mark Dayer, The Mater Hospital, Dublin
Phage therapy approaches for chronic infections
Professor Mark Sutton, UKHSA
Q&A
SESSION FIVE - Invited papers: Antimicrobial stewardship
This video consists of the following presentations:
Educating the public on Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship: Is there a need to re-direct UK public health campaigns?
Dr Christianne Micallef, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Integrated Care System Dr Naomi Fleming, Regional AMS Lead East of England, NHSE
Implementation of a national training programme: barriers and facilitators to cascading Antimicrobial Stewardship training to primary care providers in England
Jade Meadows, UKHSA
Enhancing Antimicrobial Stewardship Through the SMART-AMS Digital Model: A Strategic Framework to Tackle Antimicrobial Resistance
Dr Rasha Abdelsalam Elshenawy, University of Hertfordshire
SESSION SIX - Invited lecture
This video consists of the following presentations:
Tackling biocides to reduce resistance: a proposal for change
Natalie Bennett, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
SESSION SEVEN - Invited papers supported by JAC and JAC-AMR
This video consists of the following presentations:
Evaluating the application of Antimicrobial Stewardship in patients referred to the Sepsis Team
Dr Hibah Mirza, Walsall Manor Hospital
Genomic evolution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ST149 associated with a health care worker leading to two outbreaks in a neonatal intensive care unit
Dr Iresha Asanthi, University Hospital North Midlands
Antimicrobial pharmacist led penicillin allergy de-labelling (PADL) is safe and effective at removing low risk penA records
Daniel Hearsey & Neil Powell, Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
Differences in public knowledge and attitudes towards antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic use across the four UK nations
Dr Donna Lecky, UKHSA
16 May 2025
SESSION EIGHT - Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing: What's new
This video consists of the following presentations:
Paediatric dosing for 'I' category susceptibility
Dr Malte Kohns, University Children’s Hospital Basel
Cefiderocol susceptibility testing: how, when and why
Dr Ioannis Baltas, University College London
Breakpoints for urinary tract infections
Professor Alasdair MacGowan, North Bristol NHS Trust
Q&A
SESSION TEN - The Delinkage Model
This video consists of the following presentations:
The delinkage model - from pilot to roll-out: where are we now?
Professor Philip Howard OBE, NHS England & NHS Improvement - North-East & Yorkshire
Supporting delinkage through prospective data collection - what is the UK Antimicrobial Registry telling us?
Professor Gareth Jones, University of Aberdeen
Q&A
SESSION THIRTEEN - Invited lectures
This video consists of the following presentations:
Conflict and AMR
Major Scott Pallett, British Army
Faecal Microbiome Transplant - C-Diff
Dr Blair Merrick, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Fungal infections in the immunocompromised host
Dr Riina Rautemaa-Richardson, University of Manchester & Honorary Consultant Medical Mycologist, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Q&A
SESSION FOURTEEN - Pharmacy First: Is it working? Views from the frontline
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Panellists:
Dr Naomi Fleming, Regional Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead for the East of England, NHS England; Lindsey Fairbrother, Community Pharmacist, Derbyshire; Tunde Sokoya, Community Pharmacist, Essex; Mark Koziol, Pharmacists' Defence Association