Antimicrobial stewardship dashboard
The Antimicrobial Stewardship dashboard was launched in 2015 in order to support the UK 5-year antimicrobial resistance strategy that was in place between 2013 and 2018.
As part of that strategy, and following the O’Neill Review of AMR, the government at the time set the following ambitions:
- 50% reduction of preventable GNBSIs by 2020/21
- 50% reduction of the number of inappropriate antimicrobial prescriptions by 2020
The Antimicrobial Stewardship dashboard was designed to support the delivery of both ambitions, providing prescribing data to support local stewardship activity and reporting, as well as to support NHS improvement and assurance schemes.
Following publication of the UK national action plan for antimicrobial resistance, three new Antimicrobial Stewardship dashboards have been published to support implementation of these national action plans with a focus on specific infections, populations and pathways.
Work has started to replace the existing Antimicrobial Stewardship dashboard with a dashboard reporting new metrics that provide additional insight to inform commissioning for population health and for antimicrobial stewardship improvement.
These metrics are in development and will be implemented in a forthcoming new dashboard (no timescales around the completion of the work are available at present).
If you're registered, you can access the ‘restricted items’ dashboard using ePACT2.