On the past 25th of March, Carl Llor, coordinator of the Imagine project, participated the AMS workshop in Primary Care organized by EU-JAMRAI in Madrid, a joint action of the European Union, with the aim of presenting the project and seeking synergies with other initiatives currently being carried out on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).
In addition to the Imagine project, EU-JAMRAI also invited the Team-COACH project to the workshop, which aims to create an innovative training platform to strengthen capacities and improve practices in Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs (ASPs) in the pediatric field, both in hospital and outpatient settings, including primary and secondary care services.
According to Llor, participating in workshops and collaborating with other entities like EU-JAMRAI or Team-COACH can help the Imagine project disseminate the results obtained in nursing homes, and at the same time, help them share their own results, as well as share knowledge that can be useful for everyone to increase awareness about AMR and improve antibiotic prescription by reducing inadequacy.
EU-JAMRAI is a joint action of the European Union on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Healthcare-Associated Infections, consisting of 44 partners and 45 stakeholders. Its goal is to provide direct and significant support to help EU member states in the development and update of their National Action Plans on AMR. Additionally, EU-JAMRAI also supports the widespread adoption of state-of-the-art infection prevention and control practices, both for community-acquired and healthcare-associated infections, as well as antimicrobial stewardship strategies in various settings. In this way, the initiative helps increase awareness and understanding of AMR across Europe, with a One-Health approach, and strengthens the responsiveness and coordination of health systems to protect people from AMR in the EU.
On the other hand, Team-COACH is a three-year project co-financed by the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) and led by a consortium of experienced partners in Spain, Italy, and Greece, countries that currently register some of the highest AMR rates in Europe. In addition to the training network, it will also create clinical outcome assessment modules to accurately evaluate the long-term impact that the training should have on the performance of healthcare professionals over time in their daily practice.
