PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Antimicrobials: Drug Resistance (3 July 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information he holds on the number of patients diagnosed with (a) antimicrobial- and (b) antibiotic-resistant diseases in England in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Dame Angela Eagle (Labour)

Public Health England does not hold umbrella data on all antimicrobial and antibiotic-resistant diseases in England as there are over 100 antimicrobial drugs in use and a large number of bacteria, fungi and viruses that could show resistance to one or more of them. Data on specific bug/drug combinations are available in the attached table: Number of cases of antimicrobial/antibiotic resistant infections identified in specific drug combinations.

Answered by:
Steve Brine (Conservative)
6 July 2018