🦠 Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) : Essential to prevent antibiotic resistance; focuses on raising awareness and best practices among the public and healthcare providers.
📉 Goals for Antibiotic Prescribing:
Reduce total antibiotic prescriptions in primary care, adjusted for demographic factors (STAR-PU).
Decrease the proportion of broad-spectrum antibiotics like co-amoxiclav, cephalosporins, and fluoroquinolones.
🌍 Global Health Challenge:
Antibiotic misuse is a top 10 global public health challenge, leading to increased consultations, hospital admissions, and mortality.
UK's five-year national action plan (2019-2024) aims to reduce the need for and unintentional exposure to antimicrobials.
📚 Guidance and Requirements:
Clinical pharmacists under the ARRS are tasked with ensuring GP practices align with local AMS guidelines.
Care Quality Commission (CQC) mandates monitoring total antibiotic consumption.
🔄 Strategies for Optimisation:
Promote prescribing narrow-spectrum antibiotics initially, reserving broad-spectrum options for when necessary.
Encourage the shortest effective courses of antibiotics to mitigate resistance and adverse effects.
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🧫 Optimisation Opportunities and Impact:
NHS England's 2023/24 priorities include reducing the length of antibiotic courses.
Shorter courses proven as effective as longer ones, reducing antimicrobial resistance and side effects.
📊 Prescribing Data Insights:
Variation in prescribing short vs. long antibiotic courses across practices, affecting health equality.
Each additional day of antibiotic therapy increases the risk of side effects and resistance by 4% and 3%, respectively.
🌱 Environmental and Healthcare Benefits:
Optimising antibiotic duration reduces waste and environmental impact.
Aligns with the UK AMR National Action Plan to cut human exposure to antibiotics in primary care by 25% between 2013 and 2023/24.
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