British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Activities

• Publishes the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
• Organises numerous annual educational sessions, workshops and small conferences for clinicians, researchers, clinical scientists and academics.
• Development of national standardised tests to determine micro-organism susceptibility to antibiotics,
• Surveillance of resistance rates of organisms involved in the development of respiratory infections and bacteraemias.
• Out-patient parenteral antibiotic therapy Initiative. The OPAT Initiative is involved in the development of a body of evidence that include good practice recommendations, a business case toolkit and a patient management system to support clinicians in the provision of parenteral antibiotics away from the hospital in-patient setting.
• Advocates appropriate prescribing of antimicrobials including coordinating and submitting UK data on antimicrobial consumption to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
• Point Prevalence Survey system and outcomes registry which enables UK hospital Trusts to report antibiotic point prevalence results and to compare and contrast their usage with other Trusts, regions and national administrations.