Dr Sanjay Patel is a paediatric infectious diseases and immunology consultant working at Southampton Children’s Hospital, UK. His main areas of interest are outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) and antimicrobial stewardship (AS). Sanjay is the Officer for Maternal and Child Health for the British Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC), he chairs the paediatric network of the ESCMID Study Group for Antimicrobial Stewardship (ESGAP) and is also the National clinical advisor for paediatric AMS at NHSE..
Sanjay Chaired the BSAC working group which developed national common infection pathways (https://bsac.org.uk/paediatricpathways/) and he also leads the Healthier Together programme in Wessex (www.what0-18.nhs.uk), which has significantly reduced primary care antimicrobial prescribing through the implementation of consistent management approaches for professionals and effective safety netting resources for parents.