Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to re-establish a formal Government to industry dialogue on steps to accelerate the discovery and development in anti-microbials; and if he will make a statement.
We will re-launch the Joint Government/Industry Working Group on antimicrobial resistance later this year. The group’s work will include collaboration on the discovery and development of new antimicrobials, in particular with respect to the United Kingdom’s pilot scheme to test an alternative, subscription reimbursement model for use of new antibiotics on the National Health Service.