PrescQIPP

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, and 5-year action plan 2024-2029. 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.

Implementation of the UK 5-year action plans for antimicrobial resistance are supported via an NHS AMR Programme Board. 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

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 next PrescQIPP Antimicrobial Stewardship VPG is Wednesday 7th May 2025 1-2pm chaired by Saj Khatri & Elizabeth Beech.

Introduction to the 2025 updated UK Access, Watch and Reserve (AWaRe) classification and impact for antimicrobial stewardship in primary care.

Rachel Berry, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer’s Clinical Fellow UKHSA, and Elizabeth Beech NHS England Regional Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead will present and explain the new classification for antibiotics, how this impacts antimicrobial stewardship in primary care, and introduce the new PrescQIPP AWaRe Antimicrobial Stewardship dashboard reporting primary care prescribing data that will support antimicrobial stewardship in primary care.

If you have not yet joined the PrescQIPP Antimicrobial Stewardship Virtual Professional Group you can do so here.

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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