The Antimicrobial Resistance in Animals and the Environment - Five Year Implementation Plan for Wales 2019-2024 is a sub-national cross-sectoral plan. Its main objectives are to embrace a One Health approach in our ways of working, co-ordinating animal and environmental health with public health, and delivering this policy in synergy with our animal health and welfare strategic objectives; to significantly reduce the need to use antibiotics in farmed animals by raising the health status of herds and flocks, applying the principle of “prevention better than cure” through animal health planning; collect/measure antibiotic usage information for each major farmed animal species in Wales; improve standards of antibiotic stewardship, through training, benchmarking and provision of guidance and setting of standards for both prescribing and supply; better understand the role of the environment in the development and spread of AMR; in particular, to monitor antibiotics and their residues in the environment, particularly water sources; promote responsible use of antibiotics in companion animals; reducing need for and unintentional exposure to antimicrobials; optimising use of antimicrobials in animals; minimise spread of AMR through the environment stronger laboratory capacity and surveillance of AMR in animals; an investing in innovation, supply and access to tackle AMR.
Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte · 2019-01-01