Originally posted by Jeremy
The Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer is out and it's here if you want to download the pdf (clicking the link will cause it to automatically download).

There are some key recommendations, some of which are around education and "antibiotic stewardship", effectively using antibiotics wisely in order to preserve the antibiotics we have. Under the "surveillance" part of the report the recommendations are:

  • develop surveillance systems to underpin their strategies for prevention and antibiotic stewardship


  • monitor infection


  • monitor antimicrobial (in particular antibiotic) prescribing


  • monitor antimicrobial resistance (AMR)


  • link this information to other Health and Care datasets to inform future action


It's interesting to speculate upon how we might monitor antimicrobial prescribing in the veterinary sector in ways that we are not doing today.