NPS MedicineWise used
Antibiotic Awareness Week (16-22
Nov) to call for a ‘cultural shift’
in the way antibiotics are used in
Australia to combat the nation’s
serious health issue of antibiotic
resistance given the lack of new
antibiotics.
University of Queensland
Professor Matt Cooper says that
without new antibiotics ... we’re
dangerously close to heading back
to a pre-antibiotic era, when even
simple infections caused death.
NPS is asking people to take
a five-point pledge around
minimising antibiotic use.
There’s also a new NPS online
learning course titled Introduction
to antimicrobial prescribing - see
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