QP 2017-8 E. Coli & Urinary Tract Infections European Antibiotic Awareness Day November 2016

Incidents of E Coli Bacteraemia, monthly cumulative

This is maximum number and includes ALL age groups This is maximum number and includes ALL age groups. In reality, the reduction needs to be in the over 70’s but the figures are not yet available.

Need to remain below 1.161 items/STAR PU

Need to remain below 10%

European Antibiotic Awareness Day November 18th Have you? Put up Posters? Printed Patient leaflets? Put up a Screen Display? Put it on your website? Will you? Become an Antibiotic Guardian (make your pledge at: www.antibioticguardian.com). Put it on your email signature! Prescribe more delayed/deferred prescriptions Actively promote Antibiotic Stewardship?

Was this you last year? Please send in your noticeboards (A prize for the best)

Treating Children with RTI STARWAVe Treating Children with RTI Short illness (≤3 days) Temperature (parent reported severe in previous 24 hours or ≥37.8° on examination) Age (<2 years) Recession (intercostal or subcostal) Wheeze (on listing to chest with stethoscope) Asthma Vomiting (parent reported moderate / severe in previous 24 hours) In the paper it is shown that when children have no more than one of these features, they have a very low risk of requiring hospitalisation for their RTI in the following 30 days - at around 1:300. Lancet Respir Med 2016 Published Online September 1, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(16)30223-5