18 to 24 November is World AMR Awareness Week!

Our practice is participating in World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness week this year! Our clinicians are working hard to do their part in combating antimicrobial resistance, and our practice is taking part in various quality improvement projects to ensure our patients are guaranteed the best health outcomes. Our team is committed to following safe prescribing guidelines for antibiotics – read more about AMR below!

From the World Health Organization (WHO):

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines, making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death. As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines become ineffective and infections become increasingly difficult or impossible to treat.

A global action plan to tackle the growing problem of resistance to antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines was endorsed at the Sixty-eighth World Health Assembly in May 2015. One of the key objectives of the plan is to improve awareness and understanding of AMR through effective communication, education and training.

World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW) is a global campaign that is celebrated annually to improve awareness and understanding of AMR and encourage best practices among the public, One Health stakeholders and policymakers, who all play a critical role in reducing the further emergence and spread of AMR.