Health written question – answered at on 7 February 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to ensure resistance to antibiotics does not increase in the NHS.
The Department is leading work on a new cross-Government UK five year “Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy and Action Plan (2013-18)”, to address resistance to antibiotics.
The strategy and action plan aims to reduce the development of antibiotic resistance in the healthcare sector by, for example, ensuring that good infection prevention and control measures become the norm to help prevent disease occurring, rather than a reliance on antibiotics. It also aims to ensure that infections can be diagnosed quickly, and the right treatment is deployed, and that patients are fully aware of the importance of treatment regimens prescribed and adhere to them. In addition, the strategy will ensure that surveillance is in place, which quickly identifies new threats or changing patterns in resistance.
The strategy and action plan will be published in spring 2013.
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