O’Neill Review Debate
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Julian Sturdy
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(7 years, 8 months ago)
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Kevin Hollinrake
My right hon. Friend is right that bacteria can move from animals into humans, and the O’Neill review was clear that we need to take action in agriculture as well as our health services.
The national risk register states that we will be unable to treat some 200,000 people with existing drugs and
“around 80,000 of these people might die.”
That is a Government report.
Julian Sturdy (York Outer) (Con)
My hon. Friend is making a powerful argument. Is it not true that it takes about 15 years for a new antibiotic to get to the marketplace? Given the position that he has just laid out—deaths and resistance are happening already—that is quite frightening.
Kevin Hollinrake
My hon. Friend makes a very good point. We need to take action now because of the delays in producing new drugs.