Celebrate World AMR Awareness Week 2023 by joining an interactive live webinar with leading academic primary care clinicians sharing their research evidence to improve the management of acute respiratory tract infections in children in primary care.
The webinar will cover risk assessment, managing diagnostic uncertainty, holding conversations with parents and carers, promoting self-care and safety netting, and targeting antimicrobial use.
This session is likely to be of interest to primary care healthcare professionals including paramedics, clinical pharmacists, GPs and nurses; health protection teams; and those working with children and young people including community nursing teams and academics.
If you would like to attend, please block out the space in your diary and note that the dial in details to join by MS Teams will be sent out on Monday 20th November.
Celebrate World AMR Awareness Week 2023 by joining an interactive live webinar with leading academic primary care clinicians sharing their research evidence to improve the management of acute respiratory tract infections in children in primary care.
Our panel:
Professor Alastair Hay is a GP (since 1997) and Professor of Primary Care at the University of Bristol (since 2013). He has two broad research interests relating to primary care:
- The diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of common infections presenting to primary care, including those in children.
- The appropriate use of antibiotics in primary care and the relationship between primary care antibiotics and the development of antimicrobial resistance in the community.
Dr Oliver Van Hecke is an academic GP who completed his doctoral studies in 2018 at Oxford. His research interests are in optimising treatment options for common infections in the community. This stems from his early clinical training and ongoing collaborations with colleagues in Southern Africa. Optimising treatment for infections requires a multimodal approach:
- developing clinical decision-support tools for clinicians;
- promoting cross-discipline teams to optimise treatment;
- testing and evaluating rapid diagnostic tests in clinical trials;
- ensuring public-facing communication strategies about infections and self-care are impactful.
Dr Stefania Vergnano is a Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. Dr Vergnano will be joining our session as part of the panel discussions.
Chair: The session will be chaired by Elizabeth Beech MBE. Elizabeth is the Regional Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead for the South West Region at NHS England.
Colleagues from NHS England will be monitoring the chat box and helping to answer your queries on the day.
Questions about this event?
Name: Please contact Fiona
