Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global health threat, making common infections harder – or even impossible – to treat.
In the UK, AMR is linked to twice as many deaths annually as breast cancer. Let’s protect patients, preserve antibiotics, and drive change together.
You may like to join in with the World AMR Awareness Week which runs each November and which highlights the urgent need to act and use antibiotics responsibly.
Specific dental resources are available on 3 national platforms:
- Dental antimicrobial stewardship toolkit (Dental antimicrobial stewardship: toolkit – GOV.UK: updated December 2023),
- Keep Antimicrobial Working educational website (KAW Resources – Keep Antimicrobials Working Forum & Resources),
- Scottish Antimicrobial Prescribing Group (SAPG) Dental Stewardship Steering Group (DSSG) website (Dental stewardship).
- Antibiotics don’t cure toothache: can clinical audit reduce antibiotic prescribing in primary dental care in Thames Valley?