Ben is presently a specialist Antimicrobial Management Pharmacist at St. Helens and Knowsley NHS Teaching Hospitals. He has been instrumental in several Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) innovations which improve patient flows and free hundreds of bed days annually. Recently his work has focused on tackling patients who cannot be accommodated within traditional OPAT paradigms The resulting innovative use of dalbavancin has been the subject of poster presentations at the 29th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and at the 2019 British Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Spring Conference.