Event: Antibiotic resistance and you

Antibiotic resistance affects you, but do you know how? You may have seen this topic on the news and scattered on the media, let’s build on that and discuss how we can work together daily to combat antibiotic resistance.

Antibiotic Guardian is a UK-wide campaign which aims to improve behaviours around antibiotic prescribing and use. Public Health England (PHE) established the Antibiotic Guardian campaign to help protect antibiotics and improve knowledge about antibiotic resistance. This campaign supports the UK 5 Year Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy 2013 to 2018, which sets out actions to slow the development and spread of antimicrobial resistance. Find out more about the campaign.

Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies said:

When we use antibiotics inappropriately, we are increasing the opportunities for the bugs to develop resistance – the biggest threat to human health today.

Find out what antibiotic resistance really means to you and your family by attending the FREE event at The University of Manchester.

The event aims to educate about the causes of antibiotic resistance and why it is a threat, including:

• Informing you about what you can do to help solve this problem by taking simple, everyday steps.
• Explaining the roles and responsibilities of the government, policy makers, and healthcare professionals in tackling this problem.
• Showing you how you can join the fight against antibiotic resistance.
• Allowing you to contribute to the debate about antibiotic resistance and to the solution!

Find out more and register for the event.