Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered on 7 June 2022.
Daisy Cooper
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Health and Social Care), Deputy Leader, Liberal Democrats
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the 2016 Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, which recommended that all antibiotic prescribing should be informed by rapid diagnostics, what steps he is taking to help ensure that primary care settings are equipped with point-of-care multiplex testing technology.
Maggie Throup
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
NHS England and NHS Improvement have established a workstream following the United Kingdom’s antimicrobial resistance nation action plan. The workstream is examining how the adoption of innovations in diagnostics can be accelerated and the application of point-of-care testing to ensure optimal prescribing of antimicrobials in clinical settings.
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