The antimicrobial stewardship UTI dashboard is now live in ePACT2.
As part of the UK’s second five-year national action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance, this initiative promotes optimal use of antimicrobials in humans to ensure safe, effective care by strengthening antimicrobial stewardship programmes. It aims to reduce UK antimicrobial use by 5% by 2029, and to prevent any increase in Gram-negative blood stream infections from a 2019/2020 baseline.
Optimising the management of urinary tract infection (UTI) in primary care supports these goals, with NICE antimicrobial stewardship guidance offering evidence-based recommendations for antimicrobial prescribing for acute lower UTI, recurrent lower UTI, and catheter-associated UTI.
The new antimicrobial stewardship UTI dashboard offers a range of comparators relating to the prescribing of selected antibiotics routinely prescribed in primary and community care to treat urinary tract infections. For the first time, it reports the count of people prescribed urinary continence devices. Comparators report both prescription item and people counts, and population rates, with filters enabling reporting by selected antibiotic, age band and gender.
The data, presented at organisational levels from GP practice to national (England), will support clinicians and NHS integrated care systems monitor population exposure to antibiotics, use of urinary continence devices, and identify opportunities to improve the management of urinary tract infections.
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.
Authorised users can access the dashboard on ePACT2 through this link: https://datawarehouse.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard&PortalPath=%2Fshared%2F%20ePACT2%2F_portal%2FAntimicrobial%20Stewardship%20-%20UTI&Page=National