Antimicrobial resistance
Public Health England has been awarded £5.1 million to create a virtual ‘open access’ centre, which will gather real-time patient data on resistant infections, helping clinicians understand when to use and preserve antibiotics in their treatment. Read the blog to find out more.
Are you a healthcare student? If so, as a future professional or prescriber of medicine we need you to play your own vital role in slowing the rise of antibiotic resistance. Because just like current health professionals and leaders you …
When it comes to fighting antimicrobial resistance (AMR), spreading the message is an important part of tackling the issue and community pharmacists are well placed to help get that message across. We need to make people aware that the over …
If you’re a teacher or school nurse, or you work in an educational setting, you have the opportunity to educate young people about one of the biggest health threats we face globally - antimicrobial resistance. Our antibiotics are under threat. …
How do we as professionals explain the dangers of antimicrobial resistance in a way that goes beyond just raising awareness and prompts real action? We understand the problem – our antibiotics are not working as well as they used to meaning we could …
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a huge global problem. Bacteria are fighting back by adapting to antibiotics, our drugs are becoming ineffective in treating infections and the number of effective treatment options we have is reducing. While bacteria are smart and …
Have you read our ‘10 reasons you should be worried about antibiotic resistance’ blog? Well, here are 7 more reasons all equally worthy of your concern. Antibiotics are essential for treating many infections but they’re losing their effectiveness. Bacteria are …
#AntibioticGuardian Twitter chat - Thu 19 Nov 8pm-9.30pm As part of the Antibiotic Guardian campaign, Public Health England is hosting a Twitter chat. We hope this chat will raise awareness of the growing problem of antibiotic resistance as well as providing an …
Antibiotic resistant bacteria - bacteria that can no longer be killed by our drugs - is one of the biggest health challenges the world faces. The problem is caused by overuse and misuse of antibiotics, which means we all have …
When we think about antibiotics, we think about how they help us recover from illness, or visits to the GP to get a prescription for ourselves or our children. We think of a medication readily available to help us fight …