Thursday 7 June 2018

Antimicrobial resistance increasing despite reduced GP antibiotic prescribing

Antimicrobial resistance increasing despite reduced GP antibiotic prescribing Antimicrobial resistance ‘continues to increase’ despite a drop in the amount of antibiotics prescribed by GPs, a Government report has found.

The annual report, published by the Department of Health and Social Care, said that although there is increased public awareness and prescribing has decreased, antimicrobial resistance and the incidence of bloodstream infections have continued to rise.

It stressed that there is a need to ‘ensure that doctors always prescribe according to professional guidance’, but GP leaders have argued that the focus should be on the 'abuse of antibiotics in agriculture' rather than 'scapegoating GPs'. Pulse

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