Resource Library

What can professionals and the public do about antimicrobial resistance and prescribing?

Joint meeting of the
British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy,
Specialist Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance
and the
Allicance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics

Tuesday 30 November 2004, Royal College of Physicians, London

This meeting considered how undergraduate, postgraduate and public education can be influenced to change current perceptions about the role of antibiotics and how such programmes can contribute to appropriate antibiotic prescribing.

Available Powerpoint Presentations

What does the public know about antibiotics?
Patty Koskova, City University, London, UK

Which interventions change antimicrobial prescribing?
Phil Wiffen, University of Oxford, UK

Antibiotic Pharmacy Initiative
Hayley Wickens, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK

Education: what makes a prudent prescriber?
Hugh Webb, royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Debate - "This house believes there would be minimum danger in substantially reducing antibiotic prescirbing in the UK"
Mike Sharland, Richard Mayon-White

• Document type:Presentation

Documents:	Prescribing Programme (158kb) (Added: 12 Apr 2005)