ORCID
- Lovleen Tina Joshi: 0000-0002-5965-4055
Abstract
The UK government’s five year antimicrobial resistance national action plan will need to tackle the lack of progress and a rapidly declining workforceAntimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Resistance to commonly used antimicrobial medicines is already disrupting medicine and adversely affecting patient treatment.1 Efforts have been made internationally to reduce overuse of antimicrobials and to preserve them for future generations, but there is still much to be done. The UK will be at the forefront of these efforts nationally and internationally with its national action plan (NAP)2 that sets out five years of action to support a 20 year vision to tackle antimicrobial resistance collaboratively across borders. But the plan overlooks important aspects of antimicrobial resistance and does not consider the declining AMR workforce.
DOI
10.1136/bmj.q2104
Publication Date
2024-09-26
Publication Title
British Medical Journal
Volume
386
ISSN
0959-8146
First Page
2104
Last Page
2104
Recommended Citation
Joshi, L. (2024) 'Unless we confront antimicrobial resistance now, we risk the consequences of a post-antibiotic society', British Medical Journal, 386, pp. 2104-2104. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2104
