Antimicrobial usage: How do we protect our future?
Date: Saturday 26th March 2022
Opening times: 16:50-17:40
Venue: Manchester Central
Details
Stream: Internal Medicine- Saturday Night Fever
Join us at BSAVA Congress where we will be taking part in a broad discussion, looking at guidelines on antibiotic stewardship, the reasons for it and the evidence to support the Protect Poster. Angela Rayner, Quality Improvement Advisory Board member, will join Fergus Allerton, Ian Battersby Elizabeth McLennan Green and Simon Cook during this discussion as part of the Internal Medicine Stream.
Speaker:
Angela Rayner BVM&S MScPSCHF MRCVS
Angie is Director of Quality Improvement for CVS Group and a small animal GP vet. She started her veterinary career as a registered veterinary technician in the U.S. and then made her way to Scotland, to graduate from the R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh. She won an RCVS Knowledge QI Award for improvements made in controlled drugs auditing and is Co-clinical Lead for their Antibiotic Stewardship Audit.
Angie has an MSc in Patient Safety and Clinical Human Factors at the University of Edinburgh. This programme supports healthcare professionals in using evidence-based tools and techniques to improve the reliability and safety of healthcare systems.
It includes how good teamwork influences patient outcomes, key concepts around learning from adverse events and teaching safety, understanding the specialty of clinical human factors, as well as the concept of implementing, observing and measuring change, monitoring for safety, and it focuses on quality improvement research and methodologies.
Angie is passionate about promoting and developing QI to benefit animal welfare and staff wellbeing, through collaboration with veterinary and human healthcare colleagues. She has an interest in human factors and systems thinking approach and believes that QI can help improve joy in work.
Location:
BSAVA Congress are delighted to finally be in the vibrant city of Manchester with our face to face element of Congress and to be combining this with the familiar virtual platform of Virtual Congress 2021, simultaneously broadcasting online.
Manchester Central Convention Complex, Windmill Street, Manchester, M2 3GX
