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Antibiotic stewardship tools, audits and other resources

Site: Royal College of General Practitioners - Online Learning Environment
Course: TARGET antibiotics toolkit hub
Book: Antibiotic stewardship tools, audits and other resources
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Date: Saturday, 27 April 2024, 3:05 AM

Description

TARGET logo, showing some pills and the words TARGET, keep antibiotics working Resources to support antimicrobial stewardship in your practice, including audit templates and tools to support reviewing patients on long term and repeat antibiotics, self assessment checklists, action planning templates and posters and videos for clinical waiting areas.

Version 1.0, November 2021.



Table of contents

How to..? Resources (repeat and long term antibiotics)

The ‘How to…?’ series aims to support primary care teams to review the appropriateness of antimicrobials in the evidence-based treatment and prevention of Acne Vulgaris and Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Use the how to resources to manage and review adults on long-term and repeated antibiotics for the treatment and prevention of Acne Vulgaris and COPD exacerbations. The acne resource can also be used for children over the age of 12.

The TARGET acne ‘How to…’ worked examples are a resource designed to be used with the TARGET acne ‘How to…’ toolkit for the review of antibiotic prescribing of patients with acne in primary care.

You can access the search strategy guides and documents for EMIS, SystmOne and Vision, as outlined in the How to guides by downloading this zip file. Please refer to the instruction guides.

Please provide feedback via this short questionnaire to enable continual monitoring and update of the information in the booklets.

Audit toolkits

Use these audit templates to assess your management of infection against current prescribing guidelines developed by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) / Public Health England (PHE, now UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)). The audits are designed to measure compliance against this guidance. For ease of use, each audit is available in both Microsoft Word and Excel format; the Excel version will automatically calculate your percentage compliance against guidelines.

If you have any comments or feedback please respond to the questionnaire or email TARGETantibiotics@ukhsa.gov.uk.

Self-assessment checklist

Checklist to measure your current antibiotic prescribing practice.

This tool is a short questionnaire for use by antibiotic prescribers and Commissioning groups to assess antibiotic prescribing.

To begin: Antimicrobial Stewardship Self-Assessment Checklist - select whether you are a GP or CCG representative:

Action planning

Action planning within a practice or out of hours team is essential to move the intentions into actual actions. It is essential to plan and monitor implementation of the TARGET Antibiotics Toolkit appropriately and this is best achieved by developing a local antibiotic action plan, either for your CCG or your practice. It is important that this plan is developed using a whole team approach so that everyone who is involved in communication and prescribing around antibiotics has had the opportunity to contribute.

The practice action plan should ideally set out current antibiotic usage and an outline of future plans. This should include:

  • Overall aim for change in antibiotic use and defined measurable targets (use a locally agreed reduction target)
  • How the practice aims to achieve this implementation, with responsibilities for actions
  • How leaflets can be incorporated into the practice computer, and by whom and when
  • Who is responsible for posters/videos
  • Audit plans and responsible staff member

Action plan template and examples

Videos for clinical and waiting areas

Access the videos to be displayed on TVs in patient waiting areas. The resources aim to raise awareness of the importance of appropriate antibiotic use and can make a difference to the patients’ expectations on antibiotic prescribing.

Department of Health 

Health Education England (HEE) 

An HEE antimicrobial resistance animation has been created to help prescribers assess and care for a patient who incorrectly feels they should be prescribed an antibiotic.