LSMO-04 - Lunch break symposium: Coercion or custodian: A lively debate (GRIP)

Roof Terrace room
Organised by GRIP

Chair(s)

Mr Trevor Gore, Trustee of the Self-Care Forum, UK

Introduction

The session takes a debate format to addressing AMR where one team is a proponent for ‘bottom-up’ or community pharmacy driven behaviour change and the other team is a proponent for ‘top-down’ or legislative change being most effective.

Programme

 

Moderators:

Team 1: Coercion – Legislative Change:

  • Mr Andrew Gray, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (lead)
  • Dr Khalid Eljaaly, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
  • Ms Victoria Rutter, Commonwealth Pharmacy Association, UK

Team 2: Custodian– Pharmacy Intervention:

  • Mr John Bell, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (lead)
  • Prof. Sabiha Essack, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • Dr Dalal Hammoude, University of Qatar, Qatar
13:00 – 13:10 Moderator introduction
13:10 – 13:40 Team 1 and Team 2 debate their positions for either a bottom up (pharmacy) or a top down (legislative) approach to addressing AMR
13:40 – 13:50 Team leads summarise their position for the audience
13:50 – 14:10 Question and answer session and voting for the winner
14:10 – 14:15 Key observations & closing remarks

Learning objectives

  1. To create awareness on the need for a continued effort from Pharmacy to curb the inappropriate use of antibiotics.
  2. To explore the benefits and drawbacks of different approaches to optimizing antimicrobial use using Upper Respiratory Tract Infections (URTIs) as an illustrative example, including legislative change as well as community-pharmacy driven behaviour change.
  3. To explore the pharmacists’ role in mitigating antimicrobial resistance including but not limited to reducing antimicrobial use, antimicrobial stewardship and research and development on antimicrobials to treat infections