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UK Antimicrobial Resistance Diagnostics Collaborative

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NHS England established the United Kingdom Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Diagnostics Collaborative in 2018 to deliver the UK’s diagnostic ambitions for AMR. The Collaborative has played a valuable role in developing the diagnostic elements of the new five-year UK AMR national action plan, published in January this year.

The work of the Collaborative contributes directly to the Government’s commitments on AMR, and the Collaborative’s secretariat communicates with the Department on a regular basis and it has been represented by its secretariat and former chair in the UK AMR Programme’s governance groups.

The Collaborative’s chair remains vacant while NHS England develops detailed plans to support the implementation of the new national plan on AMR. As part of this work, the membership of the Collaborative is under review.

Current membership is drawn from a range of stakeholders across Government and its agencies, the devolved administrations, the health system, veterinary medicine, professional bodies, academia, the research community and industry. Members at or above ‘very senior manager’ (VSM) level and partner agencies involved in the Collaborative are listed in the following table.

Members of the UK Antimicrobial Resistance Diagnostics Collaborative at or above VSM level	Organisation
Mohamed Sadak	Health Education England
Marion Lyons	Welsh Government
Gerry Waldron	Public Health Agency Northern Ireland
Neil Woodford	Public Health England
Partner Agencies
NHS Scotland	NHS England
NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group	Department of Health and Social Care
NHS Improvement	University of Bristol
Institute of Biomedical Science	Association of Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine
UK Standards for Microbiology Investigations	Royal College of Pathology
Royal College of General Practice	National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Medical Technology Guidance
Sherwood Forrest NHS Foundation Trust	Royal College of Nursing
University of Surrey	Addenbrookes Hospital NHS Trust
University of Edinburgh	Medical Research Council
British In Vitro Diagnostic Association	NIHR Community Healthcare MedTech and In Vitro Diagnostics Co-operative
Innovate UK	NICE
Royal Cornwall Hospital	Kingston University
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture Alliance
University of Liverpool	Ulster University
University of Exeter	Westpoint Farm Vets
University of Nottingham	Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Cardiff University	Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Glasgow Caledonian University

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Written question

Reference

225396

Session

2017-19

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