Applications are invited to carry out a project exploring how Antibiotic Action can engage with Charities for whom their stakeholders rely upon antibiotics. The intern will also be asked to investigate how Antibiotic Action can engage with established networks and consortia comprising healthcare professionals, consumer groups, general public and political lobbyists to maximise the key messages [...]
Bang Goes the Theory – BBC prime time programme covers the issues of antibiotic resistance and lack of antibiotic discovery
In response to recent fears about the future of antibiotics, the BBC Bang Goes The Theory team investigated germs and infection. Featuring BSAC General Secretary, Dr Matthew Dryden, the programme reveals why doctors can be reluctant to prescribe antibiotics for coughs and colds, and explains what bacterial resistance is all about and finds out whether people are right to [...]
Press coverage from CMO Annual Report Vol 2: Infections and the rise of antimicrobial resistance
Professor Laura Piddock, Director of Antibiotic Action was invited to give comment and interviews on the need for the discovery and development of new antibiotics following release of the Chief Medical Officer’s Annual Report (Vol 2)Infections and the rise of antimicrobial resistance on 11 March 2013. Below is a selection of press coverage, both direct [...]
Antimicrobial resistance poses ‘catastrophic threat’, says Chief Medical Officer
Antibiotic Action supports comments made by England’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies in the second volume of her annual report published today. She issues stark warnings about the catastrophe we face if we do not immeidately address the threat of antimicrobial resistance. The CMO said we could routinely see deaths from minor surgery within 20 years [...]
Resistance and lack of antibiotics deemed global problem of “apocalyptic” proportions by Britain’s most senior medical adviser
Mirroring the key messages given by Antibiotic Action since its inception in November 2011, Professor Dame Sally Davies, chief medical officer (CMO) for England, has spoken to MPs about the increasing problem of antibiotics and the lack of new antibiotics available to treat infections. Speaking to MPs on the Commons science and technology committee, the CMO said [...]
Support needed – Antibiotic Action goes Rock Solid!!
We are delighted to announce that as part of the Antibiotic Action fundraising activities in 2013 Dr Mike Beeton , University of Bath, will run the notoriously difficult Rock Solid Race. You are invited to support Mike by visiting his event webpage and give a donation. You can donate anything from £1.00 upwards; please gift [...]
World Economic Forum publishes its 8th Global Risks Report
The World Economic Forum has published its eighth Global Risks report. The purpose of the current edition is twofold. First, it aims to show how experts from around the world, from different backgrounds, currently perceive the risks that the world is likely to face over the next decade. To capture these opinions, a survey was carried [...]
Online dispensing of antibiotics threatens future of medicine – BSAC speaks out in The Times
BSAC Council has debated the potential harm that new initiatives aimed at widening access to medicines can cause. The Society is concerned that services offered by high street and online pharmacies, whereby patients can pay for an online consultant and gain a prescription for antibiotics, will do little to reduce prescribing by GPs, but could [...]
Online consultations for antibiotics – a threat to resistance and the effectiveness of antibiotics
The Council of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, in a letter to the BMJ, has expressed concerns at widening of access to antibiotics via online consultations – now offered by high street and online pharmacies. In the letter BSAC acknowledged that as a general principle it is good that patients have ready access to the [...]
Transplants and cancer treatment ‘under threat’ from superbug rise
Organ transplant operations and cancer treatment could become ‘more dangerous’ as the rise of superbugs means powerful antibotics will only work for another ten years. Sobering thoughts from an article published in The Telegraph. Click here to read the full article that includes commentaries from World Health Organisation, Health Protection Agency, Chief Medical Officer and [...]