OPAT Pathways | NHS Online Conference

IV Therapy OPAT

Thu 22 May 2025 09:00-16:10

Online Conference, 6 CPD Hours

Benchmark your OPAT pathways: enhance your knowledge, share best practice and discover strategies to develop your service in a one-day immersive event

Book your place to see what other services and professionals across the United Kingdom do and learn from their first-hand experiences. Benefit an impressive, interactive and informative networking forum which will enable you to benchmark your service, improve communication and referrals and standardise practice.

Don't forget to book your NHS or Public Sector place by Friday 11th April 2025 and save £50 with the early bird rate!

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Developing Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) Pathways

Online 6 CPD hours From £149+VAT

6 hours Continuing Professional Development: what you will learn

Join this relevant and interesting one day course promoting networking and collaboration with a focus on sharing best practice to enable you to tackle challenges with tried solutions.

Engage and share your challenges with OPAT teams from around the UK
Develop your elastomeric device pathways
Benchmark and improve your use of vascular access devices (VAD)
Streamline your referral pathways to ensure maximum capacity
Enhance your care through networking and key examples of best practice
Ensure safe and quality care through enhancing your virtual wards

Attend this online course with convenience in mind

Packed with examples of best practice, and expert advice, plus benefit from:

Meeting and engaging with fellow OPAT teams – network with NHS Professionals all over the country
Listening and watching presentations and speakers’ Q&A – Ask those burning questions to understand other services
Taking part in facilitated interactive sessions – discuss hot topics and hear how different trusts are tackling them
Feeding back and engaging – using the chat box and moderators sharing content to ensure you get the most out of this day

9:00	Join, tech support and opportunity to network in breakout rooms Who are you and where are you from? What are your current challenges and what would you like to achieve today?
9:30	Chair’s opening remarks and introductions
Establishing referral pathways for maximum buy-in
9:40	Exploring strategies to increase referrals to maximise capacity in your OPAT service Ensuring clear and effective pathways for referring to OPAT Improving signposting and guidance to build confidence and secure buy-in from consultants Case Study: How one team increased referrals into OPAT
10:10	Questions and answers with your speakers
10:20	Interactive discussion: How to increase referrals to your OPAT service Share your OPAT capacity challenges and how many patients you currently have under your service How are you working to increase the number of referrals you receive? How has this worked so far? How do you demonstrate the need for your OPAT service through referral rates?
10:30	Feedback on interactive discussion: How to increase referrals to your OPAT service
	Sponsorship presentation opportunity Please contact Vanessa Pearce for more information. Vanessa.Peare@sbk-healthcare.co.uk or 01732 897788
10:50	Screen break
Standardising use of Vascular Access Devices (VAD)
11:00	Improving infection prevention and enhanced maintenance of VAD Best practice for inserting VAD and proper flushing protocols Minimising VAD complications: leaks, blockages and infection Exploring and understanding the guidance around removal of VAD
11:30	Optimising Vascular Access Delivery lines: complications and management strategies Identifying VAD complications in the community and hospital Evidence-based solutions for overcoming common VAD complications and challenges Case study: reducing challenges associated with Catheter-related venous thrombosis (DVT)
12:00	Questions and answers with your speakers
12:10	Interactive discussion: Building a successful business case for developing your OPAT service Share your current approach to curating your business case. What have you learnt so far? What have been your challenges when creating a business case to develop your service? How have you worked to overcome them?
12:20	Feedback on interactive discussion: Building a successful business case for developing your OPAT service
12:30	Lunch break
Establishing an elastomeric device pathway
1:20	Utilising elastomeric devices to reduce hospital time and get patients home faster Supporting self and parental administration using elastomeric devices Improving procurement of devices and overcoming associated challenges Case study: how to implement a successful elastomeric device pathway
Achieving enhanced self-administration competency
1:50	Developing self-administration training to increase competency and capacity Understanding the impact of self-administration on safety, monitoring financial, staffing and capacity pressures Overcoming challenges to implement a self-administration pathway and increase competency Case Study: exploring real-world challenges and benefits of OPAT self-administration
2:20	Questions and answers with your speakers
2:30	Interactive discussion: Incorporating elastomeric devices into your OPAT service Share your elastomeric device procurement challenges and how you are working to overcome them? Have you established an elastomeric device pathway? What does the pathway look like?
2:40	Feedback on interactive discussion: Incorporating elastomeric devices into your OPAT service
Integrating with virtual wards
2:50	Case study: How to incorporate virtual wards into your OPAT service Explore how you can utilise virtual wards and assessing the benefits Develop your virtual wards to improve patient experience and, reduce early and incorrect discharge into OPAT Case Study: lesson-learnt from how one team incorporated virtual wards into their service
3:10	Interactive discussion: Implementing virtual wards to support your OPAT team Share your OPAT team’s relationship with virtual wards. Do you use them? What has been your experience? Describe any benefits or challenges you have found using virtual wards within your team How will you look to incorporate them further going forward?
3:20	Feedback on interactive discussion: Implementing virtual wards to support your OPAT team
New drug update: Dalbavancin
3:30	Case study: Utilising Dalbavancin to keep your patient at home Exploring the incorporation of dalbavancin for incompliance for patients with substance use disorder Understanding how dalbavancin is used and monitored: what you need to know Explore the long-term cost-effectiveness and real-world outcomes for your OPAT service
4:00	Questions and answers with your speakers
4:10	Chairs’ closing remarks and close of day

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Pricing structure

£149 + VAT for one NHS or public sector place if booked before Friday 11th April
£199 + VAT for one NHS or public sector place if booked after Friday 11th April

You or a colleague can claim a group NHS discount, for booking places across this and any other subsequent event. Click here to view the full list of up coming events and contact contact our delegate support team for further details:

enquiries@sbk-healthcare.co.uk

01732 897788

Commercial companies are also invited to sponsor this day, please email Sarah Kemm for further details.

Reservations

How this online forum will work

Once you have booked your place, SBK Healthcare will correspond with you using the email address you provided at the time of booking. Within one week of the online conference taking place, you will be sent final details of the course including a full agenda, programme timings and your Zoom joining instructions. This email will include a joining link that can be used to access the conference.

If you have not received your email two days before your event, do check your junk folder then contact SBK Healthcare on 01732 897788.

Practice sessions are available and you will be sent an invitation to join one of our delegate practice sessions. These are optional but great if you are unsure of whether your camera and microphone will work on Zoom. We hold several one hour practice sessions across the week when a member of SBK Healthcare staff will be waiting in Zoom to assist you. Please do pop in, say hello and make sure you are all set for the day.

On the day, when registration starts, you will be able to join the conference by initially entering a waiting room when there may be a short wait. When you are automatically brought back into the conference room for the start of the conference, you will be asked to turn off your camera and microphone so that the chair can start the forum. During each presentation you will be able to ask questions in the chat box function. The forum will include screen breaks, as well as topic themed interactive sessions which will take place in the breakout rooms.

Click here to view the specially created 5-minute video that will walk you through how to get the most out of attending your SBK Healthcare interactive online forum.

Terms and conditions

Certification of attendance

A certificate for Continuing Professional Development will be given to every fully registered participant who completes the course, as a record of your continuing professional training and development.

Registration fees

You will be sent an instant payment option or invoice on registration. Your payment is required in advance. If your fee has not been received prior to the event, and you are not able to provide a PO or proof of payment, you will be asked to make a credit or debit card payment on the day.

Modify registration

To let us know if your details are not correct when you have already registered, please email the bookings team.

Cancellations and substitutions

A full refund of fees will be made only for cancellations received within the first 48 hours of the booking being made. Notice of cancellation must be received in writing by emailing the bookings team at SBK Healthcare. Should you need to cancel your registration after this date, the registration fee remains payable in its entirety although a substitution will be accepted and conference documentation will be provided. Substitution attendees for delegates unable to attend after registering are acceptable at any time.

Event changes

It may be necessary for reasons beyond the control of the conference organisers to alter the content, speakers or the timing of the programme. We will endeavour to keep you abreast of such changes but any unavoidable change to the format will not constitute a reason to refund the fee. Should the event be postponed, we will endeavour to reschedule the event. If, for reasons beyond the control of the conference organiser, the event is cancelled, a full refund will be made. We do not accept any liability for any incurred costs resulting from a postponement or cancellation.

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Expected attendees

Past attendee feedback

Hear how attendees benefited from an educational day of networking and shared examples of great practice:

‘Thank you, I appreciate the work put in - it shows’
Barts Health NHS Trust, Progressing your OPAT & IV Therapy Service, 2024

‘Very well executed’
Western Health and Social Care Trust, Progressing your OPAT & IV Therapy Service, 2024

‘Very informative. Relating to practice and case studies helpful’
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Progressing your OPAT & IV Therapy Service, 2024

‘Great day, enjoyed and gained a lot from partaking’
Guy’s St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Progressing your OPAT & IV Therapy Service, 2024

‘Very informative and recommended for OPAT and vascular access teams’
North East London NHS Foundation Trust, OPAT & IV National Networking Forum, 2022

‘Well organised, varied and interesting. Lots of things to take back to our team’
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, OPAT & IV National Networking Forum, 2022

‘Good learning and networking'
Birmingham Community Health Care NHS Foundation Trust, OPAT & IV National Networking Forum, 2022

Why sponsor?

Our role at SBK Healthcare is to bring industry together with healthcare professionals so that you can educate and inform your audience. These events offering dedicated presentation, Q&A, networking and discussion time, each sponsor will be full immersed into the event and able to effectively engage with your NHS audience.

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Developing Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) Pathways