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18 sie 2015 · This guideline covers the effective use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics) in children, young people and adults. It aims to change prescribing practice to help slow the emergence of antimicrobial resistance and ensure that antimicrobials remain an effective treatment for infection.
The Department of Health and Social Care asked us to develop guidelines to help slow antimicrobial resistance. These guidelines are evidence-based and clinical syndrome specific. Health matters: antimicrobial resistance explains more about the importance of antimicrobial resistance.
Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) refers to an organisational or healthcare system-wide approach to promoting and monitoring judicious use of antimicrobials to preserve their future effectiveness. Addressing AMR through improving stewardship is a national medicines optimisation priority, led by NHS England and supported by PHE.
This guideline covers the effective use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics) in children, young people and adults. It aims to change prescribing practice to help slow the emergence of antimicrobial resistance and ensure that antimicrobials remain an effective treatment for infection
17 sie 2022 · These two guidelines set out an antimicrobial prescribing strategy that aims to optimise antibiotic use and reduce antibiotic resistance. Published: 12 February 2019
14 lut 2023 · Antimicrobial stewardship: systems and processes for effective antimicrobial medicine use: NICE guideline (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, 2015) (link is external) Page last updated 14 Feb 2023. Directory with online resources on guidance on antimicrobial stewardship.
NICE define the term ‘antimicrobial stewardship’ as ‘an organisational or healthcare-system-wide approach to promoting and monitoring judicious use of antimicrobials to preserve their future effectiveness’.
