GPs warned to 'get tough' on antibiotic prescribing

GPs warned to 'get tough' on antibiotic prescribing GPs must 'get tough' and refuse antibiotics to patients who don't urgently need them to avert a crisis in antimicrobial resistance, the leaders of several royal colleges have warned. GP Online

See also:

• Ensuring access to working antimicrobials House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee
• Health workers urged to get tough on antibiotics Royal College of General Practitioners
• Health professions work together on meeting the challenge of antimicrobial resistance Royal College of Nursing
• GPs hand out antibiotics as placebo to patients, claim MPs OnMedica
• Health bodies join forces in clampdown on antibiotic misuse OnMedica