Antibiotics use for colds 'rising'

Antibiotics use for colds 'rising' There has been a 40% rise in the proportion of patients given antibiotics for coughs and colds since the turn of the century, a study suggests. BBC News

See also:

• Significant scope to improve antibiotic prescribing Public Health England
• Trends in antibiotic prescribing in primary care for clinical syndromes subject to national recommendations to reduce antibiotic resistance, UK 1995–2011: analysis of a large database of primary care consultations Hawker et al, Journal of Antimicrobal Chemotherapy (free full text)
• RCGP comment on Public Health England report on antibiotics prescribing Royal College of General Practitioners
• GPs dishing out MORE antibiotics just to treat colds: Number given treatment by doctors rose by 40 per cent between 1999 and 2011  Daily Mail
• More must be done to cut unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions, say experts The Guardian
• The figures behind our antibiotics crisis The Daily Telegraph
• New figures reveal soaring use of antibiotics despite warnings The Daily Telegraph