Infection Control Matters
Infection Control Matters
Brett Mitchell
AMR at a National level - The 2025 ESPAUR Report
56 minutes Posted Jan 14, 2026 at 4:00 am.
Welcome and Introductions
What is the ESPAUR Report?
Antimicrobial and antifungal resistance
Antimicrobial consumption
NHS England Improvement and Assurance Schemes
Other Key Chapters
Professional Education and Public Engagement
Professional partnerships and stakeholders
Feedback from ESPAUR Report users
How can the data be utilised?
Why is resistance increasing and what are the projections?
Diagnostic challenges
AMR as a threat to modern medicine
How will AMR affect front-line care?
How can behaviour change help?
How can we get new antibiotics?
Health inequalities and AMR
Inequalities in the paediatric population
What has been the biggest success?
Where do the opportunities lie?
Where will AI help?
Communicating the report to the front line
How can the report influence research?
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Show notes
In this episode, Martin talks to Dr Diane Ashiru-Oredope and colleagues at the UKHSA (UK Health Security Agency) about the 2025 ESPAUR report, focusing on what the latest data mean for clinicians, infection prevention teams, and health system leaders. We explore what the latest data reveal about antimicrobial resistance and prescribing trends in England, including changes in resistance patterns among major bacterial pathogens and what this means for patient safety and clinical outcomes.
We discuss what’s improving, where challenges remain, and how infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship teams can use national surveillance data to drive meaningful local action.
You can download the report in it's entirety here:https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6936ac34b612700b2cb73607/ESPAUR-report-2024-to-2025.pdf
There is also a supplement and summary in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy which can be accessed here:https://academic.oup.com/jacamr/issue/8/Supplement_2
The TARGET antibiotics toolkit hub is abailable here:https://elearning.rcgp.org.uk/course/view.php?id=553
e-Bug is available here: https://www.e-bug.eu/