Health Minister acknowledges BIVDA’s advocacy work to incorporate diagnostics into antibiotic prescribing

Steve Race MP, who authored the foreword to BIVDA’s Community Diagnostics Consensus Statement, has confirmed that Health Minister Ashley Dalton has formally acknowledged the report. The Minister expressed her thanks to BIVDA and our partner organisations for championing the adoption of diagnostic testing to support appropriate antibiotic prescribing, and commended BIVDA’s wider efforts to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). She also…