Antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial resistance must be ‘top five priority’ for government, MPs say

Tackling antimicrobial resistance needs to be firmly established as a ‘top five policy priority’ for the government in order to help prevent the worldwide loss of modern medicine.…

Government provides £32m for innovative antimicrobial resistance research

Up to £32m of funding will be awarded to the NHS, universities and research organisations for research into antimicrobial resistance, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced. …

Antimicrobial resistance campaign to include all community pharmacies

Community pharmacists have been given a role to play in a national campaign by Public Health England to fight antimicrobial resistance.…

Pharmacists given funding to tackle global antimicrobial resistance

The government will ring fence £1.34m to support UK pharmacists and nurses working to tackle antimicrobial resistance in Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.…

Pharmacists have critical role in protecting antibiotics by encouraging self-care, GRIP symposium says

Community pharmacists are central to reducing the inappropriate use of antibiotics in upper respiratory tract infections, according to Martin Duerden, a GP and honorary senior research fellow at Bangor University, Wales.…

Myth-busting sessions in the community to improve knowledge of antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of today’s great public health challenges and it is driven by the use of antibiotics. As antimicrobial pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, we are tasked with reducing unnecessary antibiotic use in our patient population at Cwm Taf University Health Board…

AMR will be ‘central’ to NHS 10-year plan, says minister

Antimicrobial resistance will be a central element of the NHS 10-year plan, public health and primary care minister Steve Brine told MPs at a House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee hearing on 11 September 2018.…

Patient group direction templates for prescribing antimicrobials should be created, says report

National patient group direction templates for the prescribing of antimicrobial medicines should be developed to save money, boost standards and help in the battle against resistance, according to the NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service.…

Diagnostics ‘single most important intervention’ in tackling AMR, parliamentary committee hears

Diagnostics are central to tackling antimicrobial resistance, agreed expert witnesses giving evidence to the House of Commons health and social care committee inquiry into progress on tackling the problem.…

OTC remedies and honey rather than antibiotics for acute cough, says NICE and PHE

Over-the-counter cough medicines and honey, not antibiotics, should be the first-line treatment for coughs, according to draft guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and Public Health England.…