Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) resources and links

Antimicrobial Shortages - Consumer Guidance

2023

Fact sheet or brochure

Antimicrobial Shortages - Clinician Guidance

2023

Fact sheet or brochure

Antibiotic shortages - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander - Consumer

2023

Fact sheet or brochure

Antibiotic shortages - Clinicians working in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health sector

2023

Fact sheet or brochure

Fact sheet - Safety considerations during benzathine benzylpenicillin (Billin L-A) supply disruption

2024

Fact sheet or brochure

The National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship publishes fact sheets that provide general advice about possibilities for alternative therapy during interruptions in the supply of antimicrobials in Australia. 

• National Antimicrobial Prescribing Survey (NAPS)
• National Antimicrobial Usage Surveillance Program (NAUSP)

The links below provide information on Australian AMS and infection prevention and control work.

Disclaimer: These links are provided for convenience only and should not be construed as an endorsement by the Commonwealth of Australia; conversely omissions should not be construed as non-endorsement.

• Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance
• Australian Society for Antimicrobials
• Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases
• Communicable Diseases Network Australia
• National Antibiotic Allergy Network
• National Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy
• National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship
• Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotic

The links below provide information on AMS and infection prevention and control work from around the world.

Disclaimer: These links are provided for convenience only and should not be construed as an endorsement by the Commonwealth of Australia; conversely omissions should not be construed as non-endorsement.

• World Health Organization – Antimicrobial Resistance
• Centers for Disease Prevention and Control – Antibiotic Prescribing and Use
• UK Health Security Agency – Antimicrobial resistance
• NICE – Antimicrobial Stewardship
• Scottish Antimicrobial Prescribing Group
• Video – Why is Antimicrobial Stewardship important?
• Video –  What do we do when antibiotics don’t work anymore?

• Information on common infections – NCAS - National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship (ncas-australia.org)
• Antibiotics don’t cure toothache – NHS - ADCT Folded 6pp (National) v2 31-10-16 (publishing.service.gov.uk)
• TARGET antibiotics toolkit – Urinary Tract Infections - Urinary tract infection resource suite: Campaign resources (rcgp.org.uk)
• TARGET antibiotics toolkit – Respiratory tract infection - Respiratory tract infection resource suite: Patient facing materials (rcgp.org.uk)
• Do you need antibiotics?