Post by Giovanna Forte

£600m cost to the NHS for UTI hospitalisation last year ...? This news is unsurprising given the Primary Care flow chart for diagnosing and treating a UTI omits to mention precision, guideline-compliant midstream urine when instructing the HCP to "take a urine sample". Why does this pathway fail to join the dots between precision diagnosis, sample integrity and the problems resulting from untreated or poorly treated UTI? Not to mention huge unwarranted cost. Women can now get a broad spectrum antibiotic over the counter for UTI without a formal diagnosis. Inappropriate antibiotic use fuels Antimicrobial Resistance, is unlikely to treat the cause of infection, can lead to a worsening condition, Sepsis and as we see here, hospitalisation. With 10m women a year presenting with UTI, someone at the top must take a lead on this massive, overlooked and ignored issue around women's health. Who is prepared to take this on? #uti #AMR #antibiotics #cost #NHS #urology #infection #infectioncontrol #patientsafety #prescription #prescribing #peezymidstream #kidneyinfection #bladderhealth #urinecollection #antenatal #bacteria #ecoli #leucocytes #protein #glucose #diabetes #primarycare #pointofcare #pharmacy #pharmacists #broadspectrumantibiotics #LUTS #overthecounter #diagnosis #urinesample #midstream #guidelines AMR Action UK Abid Hussain The Urology Foundation Global Antibiotic R&D Partnership (GARDP) The Wellcome Foundation Limited Wellcome Trust Whitehouse Communications Natalie Chishick Rose Bundock Professor Dame Lesley Regan DBE MD DSc FRCOG Baroness Gillian Merron BBC News NHS England ABHI James Bethell Neil McDonald British In Vitro Diagnostics Association (BIVDA) PCSIG One HealthTech Barclays Innovation Hub powered by Eagle Labs Mike Farrar Peter Llewellyn-Davies Liam Farrell Joe Kerr Fleming Initiative Ara Darzi Amish Acharya Hutan Ashrafian Simon Dryden James Moore James Barlow Jason Lawson Conner Richards Karl Barrett Giles Griffiths Williams Medical Chris Soanes In Women's Health Women in Global Health Women of Wearables (wearables, health tech & femtech) https://lnkd.in/e8shfgvE