Mentions:
1: Lord Douglas-Miller (Con - Life peer) The legislation will make it very clear that antibiotics are not to be used routinely or to compensate - Speech Link
2: Lord Trees (XB - Life peer) That is all an extremely positive development.It is worth repeating, though, that antibiotics have been - Speech Link
3: None However, the prescribing of antibiotics, which must be by a veterinary surgeon, is always recorded for - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) Doctors have been treating that response for decades with steroids, antibiotics for secondary pneumonia - Speech Link
2: Kieran Mullan (Con - Crewe and Nantwich) Antibiotics cause anaphylactic reactions that kill people. - Speech Link
3: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) The key question is: do the people who are being prescribed the antibiotics know that there is a risk - Speech Link
Correspondence Apr. 17 2024
Committee: Health and Social Care Committee (Department: Department of Health and Social Care)Found: These includ ed painkillers and antibiotics that are critical for treating infections caused by battlefield
Mentions:
1: Will Quince (Con - Colchester) As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines become ineffective and - Speech Link
2: Will Quince (Con - Colchester) We need an enormous awareness campaign and education piece around antibiotics, because their use may - Speech Link
3: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) Friend eloquently described, the pipeline for new antibiotics is running dry. - Speech Link
Asked by: Fleur Anderson (Labour - Putney)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether officials in her Department have had recent discussions with the Care Quality Commission on antibiotic underdosing.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Officials from the Department have not had any recent discussions with the Care Quality Commission on antibiotic underdosing. General guidance on prescribing and the use of medicines is published online by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, and is available at the following link:
Asked by: Fleur Anderson (Labour - Putney)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has had discussions with stakeholders on antibiotic line flushing.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Officials from the Department have not had any recent discussions with stakeholders on antibiotic line flushing. Good clinical practice is to flush an intravenous line with saline after a medicine has been administered, to ensure the full dose is delivered to the patient. This is not unique to antibiotics.
Apr. 12 2024
Source Page: Non-technical summaries granted in 2024Found: Appropriate effective treatment e.g. antibiotics will be administered under the advice of the Named
Apr. 09 2024
Source Page: MHRA FOI performance dataFound: whether there is any evidence of allergy to ezetimibe in patients with known allergy to beta lactam antibiotics
Engagement document Apr. 09 2024
Committee: Windsor Framework Sub-CommitteeFound: The core objective of this w as to actively demonstrate the sector’s reduction in the use of antibiotics
Apr. 04 2024
Source Page: Combined antibiotic approved to treat adult patients with severe infections of the urinary tract and hospital-acquired pneumoniaFound: When infections in the urinary tract or lungs (pneumonia) develop resistance to traditional antibiotics