👏Congrats to the research team at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for hitting their #UKAR recruitment target! 🎉A true team achievement led by Dr Sajeevan R. and colleagues whose dedication & teamwork have driven the study forward with quality and momentum.
#UKARstudy #NHSResearch #Teamwork
📢The #UKARStudy team and our collaborators, @bsacandjac.bsky.social (BSAC), are delighted to share "The UK Antimicrobial Registry (UKAR): an overview of the first 20 months of recruitment". Check the link to see the data collected by our hospital teams in sites across the UK
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The UKAR Study team. Left to right: Jonny Lock, Ross MacDonald, Rebecca Parr, Jisha Babu and Jay Woods
✨ Highlights of UKAR 2025 ✨
The #UKARStudy team would like to thank our hospital sites and collaborators for their time and effort👇
🎉1,100 participants and counting
✅56 hospitals across the UK
🏆23 sites achieving their recruitment target
📄1 manuscript accepted for publication another submitted
#AMR
This World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, please take a minute to consider the @who.int #antimicrobialstewardship factsheet.
The #UKARStudy collects real-world, routinely collected hospital data from consenting participants to understand best practice in the fight against #antimicrobialresistance
Thank you Lisa Frankland in the Research Team @buckshealthcare.bsky.social for helping Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust participate in this important #UKARstudy to learn from real-life data in those with resistant infections #AMR
The #UKARStudy team have returned from the @bsacandjac.bsky.social #Infection2025 Winter Conference full of ideas on how we can make the UK Antimicrobial Registry as impactful as possible for all of our stakeholders ☑️
To learn more about how you can be involved in the UK-wide study; ukar@abdn.ac.uk
The #UKARStudy team are looking forward to attending @bsacandjac.bsky.social Infection 2025 Conference at The ICC Birmingham 27-28 Oct 2025 @garethjones1.bsky.social and @rebeccaparr.bsky.social are looking forward to catching up with delegates & sharing study updates #AMR #antimicrobialresistance
🎉👏 Huge congrats to the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust team for reaching 100 participants in the #UKARStudy! Funded by BSAC & supported by Pfizer, Menarini & Shionogi — driving progress in tackling antimicrobial resistance & improving patient care. 💙🌍 #NHSResearch #BSAC #UKAR
🎉👏 University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust hit their #UKAR study recruitment target in just 6 months! Thanks to Dr Dana Penciu & clinical team for leading vital research on antibiotic use. 🌍💙 #UKARstudy #Teamwork #AMR #Research
🎉 Huge thanks to the amazing team at Kettering General Hospital NHS FT for hitting their #UKAR recruitment target! 💊
As shared:
"Data from the UKAR study will help health professionals & policymakers create effective strategies for responsible antibiotic use" 🌍💙
#UKARstudy #Teamwork #AMR #Research
📢STUDY UPDATE; 12-month extension to UKAR 🗓️
The #UKARStudy team are delighted to announce that the @nihr.bsky.social-supported UK Antimicrobial Registry has extended #Participant #recruitment to May 2027.
Get involved in the @bsacandjac.bsky.social-funded #AMR study TODAY ➡️ tinyurl.com/4j7vs5tv
UKAR: 1000 participants and counting.
We are delighted to share that the UK Antimicrobial Registry, a collaboration with @bsacandjac.bsky.social, has over 1000 recruits 🥳
Thank you to all our patients, hospital research teams, NHS Boards/Trusts and collaborators 🙏
#UKARStudy #AMR #AMS #researchstudy
“UKAR is such an important study, as it will provide real world outcome data for new antimicrobial agents.” – Ceri Phillips
🙏 Thank you to Ceri, the Aneurin Bevan team, and all our UKAR hospital sites!
Interested in joining? Email us: ukar@abdn.ac.uk
#UKARStudy #ClinicalResearch #AMR
The #UKAR team is lucky to work with some outstanding Principal Investigators across the UK! 🌟
Ceri Phillips, Consultant Antimicrobial Pharmacist & NICE panel member, leads the #UKARStudy team at Aneurin Bevan UHB.
Here's why she got involved ⬇️
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🗣️We’re looking forward to the @bsacandjac.bsky.social Winter Conference this October!
Interested in joining the #UKARStudy?
📧 ukar@abdn.ac.uk
#AntimicrobialStewardship #AMR
@rebeccaparr.bsky.social @jishab.bsky.social @aberdeenepi.bsky.social @garethjones1.bsky.social
Great to see our #Epidemiology Group represented at May’s @bsacandjac.bsky.social Spring Conference!
👉Dr Rebecca Parr & Jisha Babu joined #UKAR Chief Investigators Profs Macfarlane & Jones to share insights from the #UKARStudy
#AMR #AntimicrobialResistance #AMS
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⭐A massive thank you to all our amazing hospital sites taking part in the #UKARStudy!
We’re grateful for your dedication in recruiting participants and uploading data to the UK #Antimicrobial Registry
🥳Shoutout to our Top Ten centres for outstanding contributions👏
#AMR #UKAR @bsacandjac.bsky.social
👏 100 Participants and Counting!👏
@nhsgrampian.bsky.social & University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust have both recruiting 100 participants into the UK Antimicrobial Registry #UKARStudy — a significant achievement in our shared mission to tackle antimicrobial resistance 🦠🚫
✨Huge thanks 🙏
From coordinating trials 🧪 to collecting vital data 📊 to offering a kind word 💬, our Research Nurses 💙 are at the heart of what we do 👏👏
Let’s keep recognising their impact 🌟 — not just once a year, but always! 🙌
#ThankYouNurses #UKARStudy #HealthResearch #ResearchMatters
📍 Visit us at the UKAR desk in Hall 4!
Come chat with the team, explore our poster & learn how UKAR is supporting safe, effective use of new antimicrobials across the UK 🇬🇧
Let’s connect & collaborate! 🤝
#UKARStudy #ClinicalResearch #InfectiousDiseases #Antibiotics #BSAC2025
Come see our #Epidemiology team at the upcoming #BSACSpringConference2025 on 15-16 May at the ICC, Birmingham, UK
🔗Find out more about UKAR: www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/academi...
#BSACSpringConference2025 #UKARStudy @bsacandjac.bsky.social @uoaepi.bsky.social
Looking forward to the @bsacandjac.bsky.social Spring Conference at the end of the week.
Will be presenting and update, and some initial data, from #UKARStudy.
🌍 Excited to attend the BSAC Spring Conference & AGM (15–16 May) in Birmingham!
The UK Antimicrobial Registry (UKAR) is helping tackle #AMR by collecting real-world data on novel antimicrobial agents 💊📊
#BSAC #UKARStudy #AntimicrobialResistance
📢Calling all #DataAnalysts and #ResearchFellows. The #UKARStudy team are #hiring! Use your #StatisticalAnalysis and #MathematicalModel know-how to assess #antimicrobialresistance as part of the @bsacandjac.bsky.social UK Antimicrobial Registry
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CLOSING 30-Apr-2025 🏃♀️
🎉The #UKARStudy is delighted to welcome 2 more hospital sites as #recruiting centres. Hello 👋to the teams at @lhchft.bsky.social and Frimley Park @frimleyhealth.bsky.social. Thank you for joining the @bsacandjac.bsky.social collaboration looking at prescriptions of #antimicrobialresistance agents 🦠
🎉The #UKARStudy is delighted to open our 50th hospital site for recruitment of consenting participants to the @bsacandjac.bsky.social collaboration. @frimleyhealth.bsky.social Wexham Park site are now part of the study looking into #antimicrobialresistance #AMR #getinvolvedinresearch #tackleAMR
🚨Great article from @bsacandjac.bsky.social about the progress of the @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social UK Antimicrobial Registry (UKAR) Study. The #UKARStudy team work with hospitals and patients across the UK to collect data on antibiotics used for #antimicrobialresistance 🦠 bsac.org.uk/uk-antimicro...
The #UKARStudy team are delighted that Dr Noha El Sakka @nhsgrampian.bsky.social and fellow delegates at the Westminster Health Forum Policy Conference included the @bsacandjac.bsky.social collaboration in their approach to tackling #antimicrobialresistance #AMR Learn more here: tinyurl.com/yhk7mt5p
💪 Together, we can tackle #AMR! 🌍 The #UKARStudy
is expanding and wants to hear from patients & families impacted by #AntimicrobialResistance
🔗 Join the conversation: www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/academi...
The fight against #AntimicrobialResistance
💊🦠 grows stronger! The #UKARStudy now includes 48 recruiting centres across the UK, working with @bsacandjac.bsky.social
📣 Have #LivedExperience of AMR? Your voice matters!
