Why get involved in Keeping Antibiotics Working?

Imagine a world where comon infections become life threatening, because our medicines no longer work. This may sound like the plot of a futuristic film but this process is occurring now and we need to do all we can to prevent it.

Antimicrobial resistance threatens our ability to treat common infections and perform life saving procedures such as cancer treatments, caesarean sections, hip placements and organ transplants.

Antimicrobial resistance increases costs for health care systems and economies. Hospital stays will become longer, treatments will be more complex and this has a knock on effect on productivity of the global workforce.

Antimicrobial resistance affects the health of animals and plants so threatens food security.

Antimicrobial resistance is a global problem. It affects everyone at every level.

This webinar gives an overiew of the global risks of antimcrobial resistance and how the UKHSA is planning to tackle the problem.