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Hospitals are not ‘doing their bit’ to reduce need to use antibiotics |
The Patients Association has called for all Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG s) to implement NICE's 2015 Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) guidelines aimed at minimising the risk of antibiotic resistance (AMR) – a huge global health threat and one of the most significant threats to patients' safety in the UK. This comes after the results of a Freedom of Information (FOI) request from 144 CCGs in England by The Patients Association, reveal that:
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Helping guard against a return to pre-antibiotic medical care |