SBK Healthcare

OPAT

Thu 14 May 2026 08:30-12:40

Online Forum, 3 CPD Hours

Benchmark your community OPAT pathways, strengthen workforce confidence and safely expand your service

As OPAT services continue to expand beyond the hospital setting, teams are navigating new challenges around safety, capacity and workforce support. With service models varying across the UK, this online forum provides a valuable opportunity to benchmark best practice, share learning and hear directly from your peers facing similar challenges.

Book your place at this timely online forum to connect with OPAT and community IV teams nationwide and gain practical insights into delivering OPAT safely in community and home-based settings. Take three hours out of your day and leave with new ideas you can apply immediately to strengthen your service.

Places are free and you can attend this webinar live or on-demand after it takes place
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Online 3 CPD hours Free

Deepen your knowledge

3 hours Continuing Professional Development: what you will learn

Join this free-to-attend, half-day course dedicated to networking, collaboration and sharing of best practice with OPAT teams nationwide. Book your place to focus on:

Enhancing patient safety in community OPAT through escalation planning, deteriorating patient pathways and safe home-based delivery
Strengthening nurse confidence in delivering IV therapy outside the hospital
Exploring how long-acting antibiotics can support service capacity and expansion
Understanding where telehealth can add value to OPAT pathways
Learning from real-world case studies of community OPAT services

Live online learning

Developed with convenience in mind: join this online course remotely

Packed with practical examples, and expert advice, plus benefit from:

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

8:30	Join, tech support and opportunity to network in breakout rooms
9:00	Chair’s opening remarks and introductions
Establishing safety and systems in the community
9:10	Delivering OPAT safely in the community: practical realities, pathways and lessons learned Exploring necessary escalation and deteriorating patient pathways for safe OPAT delivery into the community Navigating hospital-community interface challenges: assessing systems, processes and resources Digital and telehealth vs face-to-face care: identifying appropriate utilisation
Devices and delivery models
9:40	Implementing elastomeric device pathways in community OPAT Understanding where elastomeric devices fit in OPAT services and navigating cost considerations Integrating elastomerics into community services with mixed or limited digital systems Case study insight: exploring the practicalities of an elastomeric pump pathway in practice
10:10	Questions and answers with your speakers
Industry partnership showcase
10:20	Sponsored presentation opportunities This is a great opportunity for an industry partner to share insights into their product or service. For further information please contact vanessa.pearce@sbk-healthcare.co.uk
10:30	Question and answers with your industry partners
10:40	Meet the sponsors
10:50	Screen break
11:00	Interactive discussion: What works in community OPAT: challenges, solutions and next steps What does OPAT in the community look like in your service and what has worked well so far? What has been your biggest challenge delivering OPAT outside the hospital and how have you tried to address it? What is one practical change, pathway or approach that has helped support staff or improve patient safety in your service?
11:20	Feedback on interactive discussion: What works in community OPAT: challenges, solutions and next steps
Administering long-acting antibiotics
11:30	Expanding OPAT capacity through long-acting antibiotics in the community Exploring how dalbavancin is being used in OPAT services to reduce workload and admissions Investigating current guidance and best practice around less frequent dosing of long-acting antibiotics Measuring the outcomes of dalbavancin use in complex OPAT patients at home Sally O’Neill, OPAT Service Lead Nurse, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Supporting the OPAT workforce
12:00	Building competency for safe IV therapy in community OPAT services Exploring practical approaches to vascular access: midlines, PICCs and safe line care Establishing effective training, competency frameworks and governance for community IV therapy Case study insight: building a nurse-led community IV service to support OPAT and admission avoidance
12:30	Questions and answers with your speakers
12:40	Chair’s closing remarks and close of conference

Call for speakers

Confirmed speaker

Sally O’Neill

Job Title:

OPAT Service Lead Nurse

Organisation

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Biography

Free NHS attendance

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 training taking place, you will be sent final details of the course including the full agenda, programme timings and your Zoom joining instructions. This email will include a joining link that can be used to access the course.

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. If you would like to attend a zoom practice session before the event takes place, please let us know by emailing bookings@sbk-healthcare.co.uk. You will have the opportunity to meet an SBK Healthcare staff member who will ensure you are able to access zoom, that your camera and microphone work and you are fully set-up for the day. This is optional but if you do wish to attend, please use the same device that you plan to use on the day.

On the day, when registration starts, you will be able to join the course by initially entering a waiting room when there may be a short wait. 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.

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

This event is free of charge to NHS and Public Sector attendees, if you book a place and find yourself unable to attend you must inform us by emailing the bookings team at SBK Healthcare at least 5 working days prior to the event taking place. Failure to attend without written cancellation, 5 days before the event will result in a charge of £100. 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. Should the event be postponed, we will endeavour to reschedule the event.

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Expected attendees

This online course is ideal for NHS professionals working within Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy. This is a great opportunity to network and share examples of best practice, so book to attend and join other:

OPAT Nurses, Nurse Leads and Clinical Nurse Specialists
Community OPAT (COPAT) and Community IV Therapy Nurses
District Nurses involved in IV therapy / OPAT
Vascular Access / IV Therapy Nurses
Antimicrobial Pharmacists
OPAT / Antimicrobial Clinical Practitioners
OPAT Service Managers and Clinical Leads

Past attendee feedback

“The presentations were really interesting and relevant to issues in my area. The facilitation was friendly but also quick. The mix of short presentations and interactive sessions worked well”
North East London NHS Foundation Trust, Progressing your OPAT and 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. Relating to practice and case studies helpful”
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Progressing your OPAT & IV Therapy Service, 2024

“Very well organised, excellent and informative content”
Newcastle City Hospitals, OPAT and IV National Networking Forum, 2023

“Good to listen to different services experience, everyone at different stages and using different models for various reasons, great to understand these”
Homerton Hospital, OPAT and IV National Networking Forum, 2023

“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.

Interested in having your own event, managed by us?

SBK Healthcare also provides in-house forums. Working closely with you as the client we can research, produce, market and deliver the conference or online forum that best suits the audience and meets your goals.

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