BSAC Spring
Conference & AGM

14-15 May 2026, QEII Centre, London & online

BSAC Spring Conference 2025

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

This video consists of the following presentations:

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

Poster abstracts

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