Have you registered yet for the National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship AAW 2022 Symposium?
Join us on Friday 18th November to hear the Unimelb Vet Antibiotics team and stewardship experts from other health sectors (human GPs, aged care, pharmacy and human hospitals) present at the Peter Doherty Institute in Melbourne (or online if you can't join in person)
If you are part of an Australian veterinary practice and would like us to post you HARD COPIES of antimicrobial prescribing guidelines or any of our other resources, please complete this form
If you are in Victoria, did you know that as of the 1st of May 2021 the Guidelines of the Veterinary Practitioners Registration Board of Victoria include guidelines for the Responsible supply and use of antibiotics under which professional conduct is demonstrated by:
15.1
A veterinary practitioner maintains current knowledge of issues relating to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by undertaking training or other continuous professional development at least every three years.
15.2
A veterinary practitioner supplies and uses antibiotics in a manner consistent with current Australian veterinary professional codes of practice and policies.
15.3
A veterinary practitioner has developed and/or has available, and complies with, a written protocol describing prudent and responsible use of antibiotics which directs their supply and use of antibiotics.
15.4
A veterinary practitioner responds in a timely and substantive manner to a formal request from the Board for information which demonstrates that their supply and use of antibiotics minimises AMR.
15.5
A veterinary practitioner does not supply, use or administer antibiotics without the prior establishment of a veterinary practitioner-owner-animal relationship.
The 3rd national Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Forum will be held in Brisbane on November 8, 2019 at the Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital Education and Conference Centre at Herston.
Public consultation is now open for the proposal for national harmonisation of minimum veterinary prescribing and compounding regulatory requirements - Treatment of livestock
Key aspects covered by the proposal are provisions for veterinarians to continue to:
compound and supply veterinary products subject to certain conditions
prescribe off-label uses for prescription and non-prescription products
use or prescribe unregistered products for food producing species in limited circumstances
The proposal and further information is available at here
Consultation is open until 2pm, Friday 14 December 2018. To make a submission:
Read the proposal and submission form (at the link above) which contains details on how your submission will be handled.