Category list : Antimicrobial stewardship
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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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Call for grant applications: Commonwealth Partnerships for Antimicrobial Stewardship
Funding has been made available from the Department of Health and Social Care, through the Fleming Fund, to support implementation of antimicrobial stewardship activities in four low or middle-income commonwealth countries: Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
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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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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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Diagnostics 'single most important intervention' in tackling AMR, parliamentary committee hears Subscription
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.
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Accurately diagnosing antibiotic allergies Subscription
Diagnosing true drug allergy can be challenging and it is important that patients are managed appropriately.
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Opiates, antibiotics and Botox should be harder to get online, GPhC proposes Subscription
Medicines including antibiotics and opiates could become more difficult to obtain online under proposals published by the General Pharmaceutical Council.
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