AMR and COVID

Last month, saw the WISH 2022 - the World Innovation Summit for Health, where experts from around the world came and presented their ideas. In this podcast we'll hear from Dame Sally Davies, the UK’s Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance - she explains how covid, and treatment uncertainty, put paid to conservative prescribing; and what innovations in microbial treatment are on the horizon. Following that, James Campbell, director of the health workforce department at the WHO, who joins us to talk about new data they have on the wellbeing, and why the international market for healthcare staff is no longer the simple solution for vacancies.

The BMJ's collections we mentioned are on empowering and engaging patients (https://www.bmj.com/empowering-and-engaging-patients) and food security and health in a changing environment (https://www.bmj.com/food-security-and-health-in-a-changing-environment)