Antibiotics: Drug Resistance

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Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to encourage CCGs to prioritise tackling anti-microbial resistance in the work of their sustainability and transformation plans.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 20th November 2017

Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are required to decide on the most appropriate approach to local prioritisation, and may wish to develop a joint plan with others in their Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) in doing so. All CCGs and STPs are required to meet constitutional standards and targets that are set at a national level; including any concerning anti-microbial resistance.

NHS England has published a series of ‘Quick Guides’ for STPs, one of which focuses on safety and links into anti-microbial resistance. Each guide sets out what success in 2020 would look like and provides guidance about how areas could approach implementation. These guides can be found here:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/stps/resources/

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