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Report finds reducing primary care antibiotic use 'not enough' to halt antimicrobial resistance pharmatimes
August 06, 2021
A new report led by researchers at Imperial College London has found that reducing antibiotic prescribing in primary care may not be enough alone to halt the rise in drug resistant Escherichia coli (E. Coli) infections in England.
More than 85 million COVID vaccines administered across the UK, reports DHSC pharmatimes
August 03, 2021
A total of 85,196,986 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the UK according to the latest figures, with 46,851,145 people receiving a first dose (88.6%) and 38,345,841 people receiving both doses (72.5%).
NICE, PHE publish new antimicrobial prescribing guideline on C. difficile infection pharmatimes
July 26, 2021
The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and Public Health England (PHE) have published a new jointly developed guideline on antimicrobial prescribing for Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) infection.
PHE study finds COVID-19 vaccines ‘highly effective’ in at-risk groups pharmatimes
July 13, 2021
A new study from Public Health England (PHE) has found COVID-19 vaccine are as effective at preventing symptomatic disease in most people in clinical risk groups as the rest of the population.
COVID-19 vaccines highly effective in most people in clinical risk groups firstwordpharma
July 12, 2021
The study from Public Health England (PHE) included more than 1 million people in at-risk groups.
COVID-19 vaccines have prevented 7.2 million infections and 27,000 deaths in England alone worldpharmanews
June 29, 2021
Latest modelling analysis from Public Health England (PHE) and the University of Cambridge’s MRC Biostatistics Unit suggests that the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination programme has so far prevented an estimated 7.2 million infections and ...
Two AstraZeneca COVID shots 85-90 per cent effective, says UK real-world analysis expresspharma
May 24, 2021
Britain has suffered one of the worst death tolls globally from the pandemic, but has also had one of the fastest vaccine rollouts, generating a lot of data about the use of the shots in real-world settings.
New advice on COVID-19 vaccination for pregnant women in UK pharmatimes
April 20, 2021
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has advised that pregnant women in the UK be offered COVID-19 vaccination at the same time as the rest of the population.
Pfizer, Oxford vaccine reduce infection risk in elderly expresspharma
March 03, 2021
Evidence for the Pfizer vaccine suggests that it leads to 83 per cent reduction in deaths from COVID-19.
Gonorrhoea cases hit highest level since records began pharmatimes
September 08, 2020
The number of annual gonorrhoea diagnoses leapt 26% between 2018 and 2019, reaching the highest level since records began, according to a new report by Public Health England (PHE).

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