Thousands of GPs warned to reduce antibiotics in fight against superbugs More than 8,000 GPs have been warned they may be contributing to the rise of drug-resistant superbugs by prescribing too many antibiotics.
Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies, who has previously warned of a “post-antibiotic apocalypse”, has targeted family doctors in surgeries with the highest prescribing rates and those where use of the drugs is rising quickly.
In a letter to GPs she described antimicrobial resistance, where antibiotics no longer work for some serious infections, as a “serious and growing threat to our health and economy”. The Daily Telegraph
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Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies, who has previously warned of a “post-antibiotic apocalypse”, has targeted family doctors in surgeries with the highest prescribing rates and those where use of the drugs is rising quickly.
In a letter to GPs she described antimicrobial resistance, where antibiotics no longer work for some serious infections, as a “serious and growing threat to our health and economy”. The Daily Telegraph
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