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Antimicrobial stewardship

Welcome to the Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) Hub hosted as part of a collaboration with NHS England. It aims to support Antimicrobial Stewardship activity within Integrated Care Systems, and delivery of the NHS Antimicrobial Resistance programme and associated ambitions within the UK 5-year action plan 2019 to 2024. Access to the AMS Hub content is open and registration is not required.

In addition to hosting the Hub, PrescQIPP collaborates with the NHS England Antimicrobial Resistance Programme workstreams by co-producing open data dashboards and hosting the Antimicrobial stewardship Virtual Professional Group.

Content for the Hub is co-ordinated by Elizabeth Beech, Regional Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead South West Region, NHS England.

The NHS England Antimicrobial Resistance Programme

The UK 5-year action plan for antimicrobial resistance 2019 to 2024 is supported via an NHS AMR Programme Board with six workstreams. More information on this programme can be accessed in the FutureNHS workspace.

The NHS England Antimicrobial Prescribing and Medicines Optimisation workstream is led by:

Each NHS Region has a dedicated lead who supports the NHS AMR Programme workstream content and leads on implementation.

  • Elizabeth Beech MBE - Regional Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead for the South West Elizabeth.beech@nhs.net
  • Gillian Damant - Regional Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead for the North West gill.damant@nhs.net
  • Dr Naomi Fleming - Regional Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead for the East of England naomifleming@nhs.net
  • Prof Philip Howard OBE - Regional Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead for the North East and Yorkshire philip.howard2@nhs.net
  • Dr Conor Jamieson - Regional Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead for the Midlands conor.jamieson@nhs.net
  • Preety (Emlata) Ramdut - Regional Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead for the South East p.ramdut@nhs.net
  • Laura Whitney - Regional Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead for London l.whitney@nhs.net

Join the Antimicrobial Stewardship Virtual Professional Group

Elizabeth Beech and Sajida Khatri chair this group which meets virtually on a quarterly-basis to highlight new AMR workstream initiatives, support implementation and share the learning from systems.

The group will next meet on Wednesday 19thth June 1-2pm. It will focus on acne vulgaris and the tools available for pharmacy professionals to review patients on acne treatment and how they can be used to improve patient care and reduce the risk of antimicrobial resistance

Click here to register for the webinar

Optimising Antimicrobial Duration Dashboards

AMS Visual Analytics to support NHS antimicrobial stewardship activity during COVID-19 pandemic

This dashboard will allow clinicians working in primary care to monitor antibiotic prescribing trends that can alert clinicians to where further investigation of antibiotic use may be required to optimise safe and effective management of suspected infection.

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AMS Visual Analytics to support Antimicrobial Stewardship activity

AMS reporting in collaboration with NHS England and NHS Improvement.

In the visualisations linked below, you'll find our interpretation of the reports that we have been producing over the last two years as part of our collaboration with NHS E around Antimicrobial Stewardship. Please note that this is fully public domain data, from the NHS BSA Information Services Portal, and that is commonly used within the public domain - future visualisations will be restricted at the usual levels.

Antibacterial data monthly commissioner, PCN and practice level reporting against NHS System Oversight Framework. Also provides specific antibacterial trend analysis.

2023/24

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2022/23

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2021/22

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2020/21

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2019/20

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2018/19

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2017/18

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Strategic activity report - Antibiotics

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