Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Tackling antimicrobial resistance 2019–2024: The UK’s five-year national action plan, what progress has been made on the objective to halve healthcare associated Gram-negative blood stream infections; and if he will make a statement.

Due to the diverse nature of the underlying causes of these infections, achieving the target to halve healthcare-associated Gram-negative blood stream infections is very challenging. We have therefore commissioned modelling of clinical pathways of Gram-negative blood stream infection and the impact of various interventions, to consider whether the target should be adjusted and, if so, what an appropriate target may be.