Category list : Antimicrobial resistance
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Point-of-care testing can support antimicrobial stewardship Subscription
Researchers say the integration of point-of-care testing could help identify lower-risk patients in hospitals and subsequently reduce antibiotic use.
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Antibiotic consumption in England has fallen by 6% in past five years, report shows
Between 2014/2015 and 2017/2018, there were 3.7 million fewer antibiotic prescriptions dispensed from community pharmacies in England, according to the fifth annual report of the English Surveillance Programme for Antimicrobial Utilisation and Resistance.
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Antimicrobial resistance must be 'top five priority' for government, MPs say Subscription
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.
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Government provides £32m for innovative antimicrobial resistance research Subscription
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.
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Antimicrobial resistance campaign to include all community pharmacies Subscription
Community pharmacists have been given a role to play in a national campaign by Public Health England to fight antimicrobial resistance.
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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.
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Pharmacists have critical role in protecting antibiotics by encouraging self-care, GRIP symposium says Subscription
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.
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Myth-busting sessions in the community to improve knowledge of antimicrobial resistance Subscription
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, South Wales, which provides healthcare services to almost 300,000 people living in Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf. Like many health organisations, we face the particular challenge of an ...
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AMR will be 'central' to NHS 10-year plan, says minister Subscription
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.
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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.
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