World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (WAAW)18-24 November 2024

Antibiotic resistance remains one of the biggest threats facing us today.

This year’s World Health Organisation (WHO) annual campaign aims to Educate Advocate Act now to improve awareness and understanding of antimicrobial resistance and encourage best practice using a ‘One Health’ approach that recognises that the health of people is closely connected to the health of animals and our shared environment. One Health is not new, but it has become more important in recent years. This is because many factors have changed interactions between people, animals, plants, and our environment.

What can you do as a Pharmacy Team :

• Maintain awareness of antimicrobial resistance with staff and patients and promote a culture of responsible use of antibiotics within your professional networks
• Help address patient expectations for antibiotics in self-limiting conditions
• When handing out a prescription that includes antibiotics,  inform patients to take their antibiotics exactly as prescribed and how to safely dispose of antibiotics in the context of preventing antimicrobial resistance.

Visit   Antibiotic Guardian – Pledge to be an Antibiotic Guardian   write your own pledge and become an Antibiotic Guardian.

For more information UK 5-year action plan for antimicrobial resistance 2024 to 2029 – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)