National and international action on treatment, education and monitoring of bacteria must continue to be taken to fight the problem of antimicrobial resistance, Public Health Minister Anna Soubry said today as the Governments five year antimicrobial resistance strategy was published.
Antibiotics are used by doctors and vets to treat and prevent infections. But bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to current antibiotic treatments, threatening our ability to carry out routine operations or transplants in the future.
In March, the Chief Medical Officer Professor Dame Sally Davies set out the risks involved, saying that antimicrobial resistance poses a catastrophic threat if action is not taken.
All the recommendations on antimicrobial resistance made in the Chief Medical Officers annual report have been accepted and acted on, including ongoing work to add antimicrobial resistance to the Governments long-term risk register, the National Security Risk Assessment.
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