Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish the data produced by Antimicrobial Resistance Diagnostics Collaborative.

Professor Dame Sue Hill, Chief Scientific Officer for NHS England, leads work to deliver the Government’s ambitions for diagnostics as part of the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) strategy. NHS England established the UK AMR Diagnostics Collaborative to support delivery of the United Kingdom’s diagnostics ambitions for AMR and development of the diagnostics elements of the new UK five-year national action plan on AMR, published in January this year.

The Department continues to work closely with the UK AMR Diagnostics Collaborative. NHS England advises that there are currently no plans to publish its data, but this may be revised in future.