Third of antibiotics prescribed by doctors are 'unaccounted for', warns Chief Medical Officer A third of the antibiotics used in the NHS are prescribed despite there being no evidence of an illness requiring them, the Chief Medical Officer has said.
Dame Sally Davies warned that the struggle to contain antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is being hampered because family doctors too often hand out the drugs to “validate” that a patient is feeling unwell.
She pointed to research indicating that approximately 33 per cent of all prescriptions for antibiotics are recorded with no associated diagnosis. The Daily Telegraph
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