The rising number of private antibiotic prescriptions is making it increasingly difficult for the UK to tackle the threat of antimicrobial resistance, a top medical adviser has warned.
Speaking at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine’s annual symposium in London on 18 November, the UK Health Security Agency’s chief medical adviser, Susan Hopkins, said that the UK had seen a “very big change” in how medicines were delivered, with more people switching from the NHS to private providers and online pharmacies to get antibiotics.
These providers “are much less regulated” than the NHS, she said. “We have much less information about the patients who are receiving them and the reasons why they’re receiving …
