Antiobiotics Awareness Day is 18 November

Antibiotics are essential medicines for treating bacterial infections, however antibiotics are losing their effectiveness at an increasing rate. Bacteria can adapt and find ways to survive the effects of an antibiotic to become 'antibiotic resistant' so the antibiotic no longer works. The more you use an antibiotic, the more the bacteria become resistant to it. Appropriate use of antibiotics will slow down the development of antibiotic resistance.

As a CCG, one of the ways we are supporting European Antibiotics Day on 18 November is to sign up the become an Antibiotic Guardian: www.antibioticguardian.com.