Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 99557

Antibiotics: Drug Resistance

Tabled: 12 December 2025

Answered: 12 January 2026

Question

Alistair Strathern

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Chief Medical Officer’s publication entitled Annual report 2025: infections, published on 4 December 2025, what steps he is taking to embed antimicrobial stewardship as a prof

Answer

Ashley Dalton

The United Kingdom’s 2024 to 2029 National Action Plan (NAP) to confront antimicrobial resistance (AMR) sets out a range of commitments and targets to mitigate the AMR risk, including to reduce antibiotic use in humans. Aligned to the NAP, NHS England is ...

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