Combatting antimicrobial resistance, the UK’s second five-year national action plan continues to promote optimal use of antimicrobials in humans to ensure safe and effective patient care by strengthening antimicrobial stewardship programmes. There is also an ambition to reduce UK antimicrobial use in humans by 5% by 2029, and to prevent any increase in Gram-negative blood stream infections in humans from a 2019/2020 baseline.
Optimising the management of urinary tract infections (UTIs) in primary care supports delivery of these key requirements, and NICE published antimicrobial stewardship guidance that provides evidence-based recommendations for antimicrobial prescribing for acute lower UTI, recurrent lower UTI and catheter-associated UTI.
The Antimicrobial Stewardship - UTI dashboard includes a range of comparators relating to the prescribing of selected antibiotics routinely prescribed in primary and community care to treat UTIs, and for the first time reports the count of people prescribed urinary continence devices. The dashboard reports on prescription item, people count and population rates, with filters enabling reporting by selected antibiotic, age band and gender.
Presented at organisational levels from GP practice to national (England), the data will support clinicians and NHS integrated care systems in the monitoring of population exposure to antibiotics and the use of urinary continence devices – enabling them to identify opportunities to improve the management of UTIs.
The data will be updated each month.
If you're registered, you can access the Antimicrobial Stewardship – UTI dashboard through ePACT2.
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Antimicrobial Stewardship – Urinary Tract Infection specification (Word: 140KB)
Dashboard webinars
We will be running a series of overview sessions with Elizabeth Beech MBE, working lead for the dashboard, to promote the dashboard and its use.
If you would like to attend a session, please book your place using our ePACT2 Webinars - Special Events booking calendar.
Sessions will be taking place on:
- 7 November at 12 midday
- 12 November at 10am
- 26 November at 2pm
- 5 December at 12 midday
When booking onto a session, please make sure that you select the date and the time before booking to ensure that you receive a confirmation email.
Antimicrobial Stewardship – RightCare UTI Focus Pack Decommission
The Antimicrobial Stewardship UTI dashboard is intended to replace the RightCare UTI Focus Pack dashboard, which will be decommissioned at the end of June 2025, one month after March 2025 dispensing data has been released. This will allow any ICB users who are using the data for commissioning purposes to use the data to the end of the 2024/2025 financial year.