European Antibiotic Awareness Day 2014 resources

18th November 2014

The European Antibiotic Awareness Day is an annual event, running on the 18th of November, designed to raise awareness of the threat of antibiotic resistance and to encourage best practice in antibiotic use (you can find the Department of Health's Antimicrobial Strategy 2013-2018 here).

This year Public Health England are running a campaign calling for everyone to pledge how they will make better use of antibiotics, via their Antibiotic Guardian site.

In conjunction with the Department of Health, PHE has produced a number of resources to promote European Antibiotic Day for both primary and secondary care. These include:

• Key messages on antibiotic use
• Quizzes and crosswords for the public, prescribers and pharmacists
• Posters and leaflets which can be adapted for local use
• Antimicrobial stewardship: toolkits and resources

If you are using social media the hashtag for the campaign will be #AntibioticGuardian and you can follow the European campaign on Twitter.

There is also a short video available from Public Health England to accompany the campaign called Will you be an Antibiotic Guardian? This explains the issues with antimicrobial resistance and what the public can do to help.