“Being able to have regular meetings with our surgeons, I think streamlines a lot of this activity” (A1).
All tasks in Table 2 were also conducted during interdepartmental AMS meetings. Education observed during meetings was not always patient-specific, with teams seen to discuss medication choices and conditions unrelated to their patients. This was confirmed in interviews at Hospital A, “The other thing it does, which I think is really important, is that it [the meetings] helps, kind of maintain the kind of education and expectations around prescribing”. (A1) Several participants at Hospital A also perceived that the AMS meetings improved interdepartmental relationships, “I find like, as I said before, there’s just a lot of respect for ID opinion, I feel like, because of the AMS meetings.” (A5)

Organisation

The key themes that emerged in the Organisation domain were the structure of the AMS team, relationships both within the AMS team and between the AMS team and other departments, executive support, AMS policy, and staff employment. Results are summarised in Table 4.