This National Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy 2015-2019 is a policy document across the animal and human health, food and agriculture sectors on how best to combat antimicrobial resistance in Australia. The goal of the policy is to minimise the development and spread of antimicrobial resistance and ensure the continued availability of effective antimicrobials. Specific objectives of the National Strategy are: 1. Increase awareness and understanding of antimicrobial resistance, its implications, and actions to combat it through effective communication, education and training. 2. Implement effective antimicrobial stewardship practices across human health and animal care settings to ensure the appropriate and judicious prescribing, dispensing and administering of antimicrobials. 3. Develop nationally coordinated One Health surveillance of antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial usage. 4. Improve infection prevention and control measures across human health and animal care settings to help prevent infections and the spread of antimicrobial resistance. 5. Agree a national research agenda and promote investment in the discovery and development of new products and approaches to prevent, detect and contain antimicrobial resistance. 6. Strengthen international partnerships and collaboration on regional and global efforts to respond to antimicrobial resistance. 7. Establish and support clear governance arrangements at the local, jurisdictional, national and international levels to ensure leadership, engagement and accountability for actions to combat antimicrobial resistance. Priority areas for action include: Strengthen consumer awareness initiatives to improve understanding of antimicrobial resistance and the importance of using antibiotics appropriately; Increase support for human and animal health professionals in reinforcing key messages with patients and clients; Strengthen communication and education initiatives for health professionals and health care team members; Ensure that tailored, evidence-based antibiotic prescribing guidelines are available for all sectors; Ensure the availability of evidence- based, best-practice and nationally consistent approaches to AMS across human health and animal care settings; Develop tailored, evidence- based resources to support the implementation of AMS programmes; Review existing accreditation and quality assurance programmes to ensure they appropriately support and encourage compliance with best practice AMS approaches; Strengthen existing measures to better support appropriate and judicious use; Improve animal health and agriculture surveillance; Investigate requirements for surveillance in food; Establish the foundations for national One Health surveillance; Ensure the availability of evidence- based, best-practice and nationally consistent standards for IPC across human health and animal care settings; Review existing accreditation and quality assurance programmes to ensure they appropriately support and encourage compliance with best practice IPC measures; etc.
澳大利亚 · 2015-06-01