drive-AMS is now a solid movement against antimicrobial resistance in Portugal. It joins sixteen local health units, meaning a total of 12,259 acute care beds, 58% of all acute care beds in Portugal. These hospitals have developed around thirty interventions using the drive methodology of slow-cycle antimicrobial stewardship.
drive-AMS teams in these hospitals are rooted in Local Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance Prevention Units or Services, which are organic hospital structures that align vertically with the National Program for Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance Prevention in the Directorate General of Health, which has endorsed the project since its very start.
In addition, in February 2024, drive-AMS was selected by the Ministry of Health for the 1st phase of Sustainable Health Pact 2024-2030, within the scope of the National Health Plan 2030, as one of the most relevant health programs. (Read more about it in our previous article)
With the nearing end of the EU4Health financed phase of drive-AMS, Unidade Local de Saúde São João, the Portuguese partner of the project, has decided to promote a meeting gathering all the sixteen Portuguese institutions aboard the program. At this drive-AMS-PT Long-Road Meeting, they will discuss and plan drive-AMS’s future in Portugal, its sustainability, stakeholders, dissemination and goals. In addition to participants from the sixteen institutions united in the process, representatives from relevant Portuguese scientific, strategic and regulatory stakeholders will also join the meeting.
Find the Preliminary Program of the meeting below:
