All NICE products on antimicrobial stewardship. Includes any guidance, advice and quality standards.
We use the best available evidence to develop recommendations that guide decisions in health, public health and social care.
Critical assessment of evidence to help you make decisions. Advice, rather than formal NICE guidance.
Published advice on this topic (16)
Set out priority areas for quality improvement in health and social care.
Published quality standards on this topic (3)
Review the evidence across broad health and social care topics.
Review new diagnostic technologies for adoption in the NHS.
Review evidence to support adoption of health technologies in the NHS.
Review the best available evidence for selected medicines.
Review the evidence and likely costs of medical devices and technologies.
Guidance, quality standards and advice being developed.
We've worked with Public Health England (PHE) to bring together our information on managing infections. New NICE guidance will be added as it's published. We'll also show where new guidance is in development.
Each organisation uses different processes to develop their guidance:
This is the first time both sets of national guidance have been brought together. Please email us at infections@nice.org.uk if you have any feedback, This could help us improve future versions.
From 01 June 2023, the summary will be temporarily hosted on the Antibiotic and diagnostic quick reference tools page of the Royal College of General Practitioners eLearning website.
The World Health Organization says 'antimicrobial resistance occurs when microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change in ways that render the medications used to cure the infections they cause ineffective'.
Resistance to antimicrobials is complex and increasing. There is a growing risk that infections may not be treatable in the future, combined with a lack of new antimicrobial medicines.
The Department of Health and Social Care asked us to develop guidelines to help slow antimicrobial resistance. These guidelines are evidence-based and clinical syndrome specific.
When we as health professionals are discussing treatments for common infections with patients, it is important to talk about the benefits and harms of prescribing antibiotics. This includes the risks of antimicrobial resistance and the threat this poses to public health.Tessa Lewis, GP and Chair of the managing common infections advisory committee
Two new antimicrobial drugs - cefiderocol and ceftazidime–avibactam - are close to becoming the first to be made available as part of the UK’s innovative subscription-style payment model after NICE today (Tuesday, 12 April 2022) published draft guidance estimating their value to the NHS.
NICE has updated its managing COVID-19 guideline to include new recommendations on using monoclonal antibodies to treat COVID-19 patients in hospital.
NICE has updated its advice on two therapeutics for managing COVID-19 – remdesivir and colchicine.
Examples of how our guidance and standards have been put into practice in the NHS, local authorities, voluntary sector and a range of other organisations.
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