Sign up to our webinars for World AMR Awareness Week 2025
The World Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Awareness Week 2025 is a global campaign, which takes place annually between 18 and 24 November 24. WAAW aims to raise awareness and understanding of AMR and promote best practices to tackle the emergence and spread of drug-resistant pathogens. The theme for 2025 is “Act Now: Protect Our Present, Secure Our Future” and it’s focus is onthe urgent need to address AMR and promote proper use of antibiotics.
In the lead up to WAAW and during the week itself, the AMR Programme Team are running several webinars:
Session | Description | Date | Time | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antimicrobial Stewardship for Nurses Across the Continuum of Care | A webinar specially designed for nurses who play a critical role in preventing the spread of antimicrobial resistance and promoting safe, effective patient care and those who wish to learn more. This interactive webinar will explore practical strategies for implementing AMS across primary, secondary, and community care settings. | Wednesday 05 November | 09.30am - 12.00pm | Register |
| National Infection and AMR Data Symposium 2025 | National teams will share available data products and platforms specific to infections and AMR. To increase awareness of what data is available in order to support the quality of care and delivery of the NHS 10-year plan. | Tuesday 11 November | 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Register |
| AMR in Focus: Empowering Health Professionals in the Fight Against AMR | This webinar provides a focus on the Human Health Agenda with an emphasis on communicating actions that health professionals can take to address AMR. Our keynote speaker, Professor Dame Sally Davies, a leading global health advocate and the UK's representative on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will be joined by Dr Matt Inada-Kim, Acute Medicine Consultant at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust and National Clinical Director for Infection, Antimicrobial Resistance and Deterioration and Dr Rajeev Shah, Clinical Director, Community Health Services for Bedfordshire & Newham. | Monday 17 November | 12:30pm - 1.30pm | Register |
| Seen and not heard – a gut feeling antibiotic use and AMR in children is a secondary consideration | Our focus today is on learning more about the potential long-term consequences of antibiotic exposure in children, the extent and impact of antimicrobial resistance on children in secondary care and work that is underway to improve paediatric antimicrobial stewardship in secondary care in England. Our speakers are Dr Sanjay Patel, Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology at Southampton Children’s Hospital, Dr Daniel Horton, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Jersey and Dr Charlotte Fuller, Leeds Children’s Hospital, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. | Wednesday 19 November | 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Register |
| Optimising the Blood Culture Pathway: Audit Insights and Regional Success Stories | Today we will share key learnings on Optimising the Blood Culture Pathway. This webinar will highlight the importance of audit and review of key performance indicators to enable accurate diagnosis of bloodstream infections, target appropriate antimicrobial therapy, and improve patient outcomes. Our key speaker, Dr Kerrie Davies MBE, Senior Scientific Advisor, Office of the CSO, NHS England, will be joined by Sam Kelly, Pharmacy Project Manager, NHS England Midlands | Monday 24 November | 12:30 - 1:30pm | Register |
Click on the relevant link above to register. Please also mark the time in your own calendars, noting that the joining link for each session will only be sent out to registered participants with an NHS email address the day before. If you have any queries about any of the webinars, please contact Fiona on email: england.amrprescribingworkstream@nhs.net