Press Releases

For all media enquiries please email media@antibioticresearch.org.uk or phone +44 (0)20 3405 7892. Please click on the links below to read our recent press releases:

21st March 2024

Living with Chronic and Complex UTIs: Antibiotic Research UK Hosts Groundbreaking Conference to Tackle Antibiotic Resistance

13th Feb 2024

New research reveals the effects of living with antibiotic resistance

17 November 2023

Antibiotic Research UK Puts People at the Heart of World AMR Awareness Week

27 September 2023

Antibiotic Research UK set to receive £412k grant from Oak Foundation

16 May 2023

Garfield Weston £50k Cash Injection For Antibiotic Research UK

4 April 2023

Antibiotic Research UK and Sylvia Waddilove Foundation Research Grant Award

24 November 2022

Antibiotic Research UK Announces Collaboration with NHS England Trusts & Health Care Systems

03 August 2022

Antibiotic Research UK Announces New CEO

11 November 2021

Antibiotic prescribing by GPs in England fell by 17% during the first
12 months of Covid without the usual winter increase

17 March 2020

Charity sends chilling coronavirus warning 

14 February 2020

Valentine’s lovers urged to keep it clean 

10 February 2020

Cheshire conference hears about lack of awareness around antibiotic apocalypse 

7 January 2020

Don’t dare share your leftover medication 

13 December 2019

Participation group grows impatient with lack of antibiotics progress

28 November 2019

Doctor warns of antibiotics apocalypse  (Oldham) 

18 November 2019

Doctors endure torrent of antibiotics abuse

21 October 2019

Runners on the blocks to beat the superbugs 

17 October 2019

Professor Tim Walsh discoverer of the colistin resistance gene MCR-1 to give 2019 Antibiotic Research UK Annual Lecture

11 October 2019

Programme means pharmacists can assist as antibiotics ambassadors

17 September 2019

Ineffective antibiotics and vaccination hesitation could provoke pneumonia outbreak 

17 April 2019

Golf club praised for flagging-up antibiotic resistance

27 March 2019

Response to calls for nationalisation of pharmaceutical companies 

12 November 2018

Stop bugging doctors and instead raise cash to cure health crisis

16 October 2018

Lecture sends out message on dearth of funds for antibiotic resistance research 

11 October 2018

War chest for Sheffield bronchitis pilot 

28 September 2018

Charity uses birthday to say: “Let’s have no unhappy returns to a pre-penicillin age

13 July 2018

Horsefly bite death threat wings its way to Britain 

18 June 2018

Ganton Hall Gardens open in a bid to beat the bugs

15 May 2018

Charities charged to come together to prevent antibiotics disaster 

16 April 2018

Time to move Mr and Mrs Mop to the top of our society

21 March 2018

Superbug superhero is running for your lives 

12 March 2018

Staff shortages could unleash superbug epidemic

16 October 2017

Antibiotic Research UK’s Chief Executive Calls for a UK Focused Action Plan to Tackle Antibiotic Resistance – Five Point Action Plan Issued

21 November 2016

FIRST RESEARCH PROGRAMME IDENTIFIES POTENTIAL ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE BREAKERS

14 November 2016

ANTIBIOTIC PRESCRIBING DROPPING FASTER THAN EVER

25 April 2016

PRIME MINISTER MEETS LOCAL MP TO DISCUSS ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE

29 February 2016

ANTIBIOTIC RESEARCH UK LAUNCHES ITS FIRST RESEARCH PROGRAMME TO TACKLE SUPERBUGS WITH ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE BREAKERS

20 January 2016

ANTIBIOTIC RESEARCH UK RESPONSE TO WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM JOINT DECLARATION ON SUPERBUGS

14 December 2015

ANTIBIOTIC PRESCRIBING VARIES ACROSS YORKSHIRE

12 November 2015

ANTIBIOTIC PRESCRIBING DATA BY AREA IN ENGLAND AND INFOGRAPHIC

5 October 2015

THE GREAT BRITISH TEA PARTY LAUNCHED 

19 August 2015:

CHARITY ANNOUNCES FIRST PROGRAMME TO TACKLE SUPERBUGS

14 May 2015:

O’NEILL COMMISSIONS RECOMMENDATION TO CREATE $2 BILLION GLOBAL FUND TO TACKLE ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE WELCOMED BY ANTIBIOTIC RESEARCH UK, WORLD’S FIRST CHARITY DEVELOPING NEW ANTIBIOTICS

6 April 2015:

80,000 DEATHS COULD BE AVOIDED WITH NEW ANTIBIOTICS

5 February 2015:

Latest O’Neill Report on Superbug Resistance Takes up Antibiotic Research UK’s Antibiotic Resistance Breaker Concept

8 January 2015:

Antibiotic Research UK Welcomes Finding of New Antibiotic by American and European Researchers

12 December 2014:

ANTIBIOTIC RESEARCH UK WELCOMES O’NEILL COMMISSION’S FIRST REPORT; ANNOUNCES MAJOR FUNDRAISING EVENTS WITH THE UK BIOINDUSTRY ASSOCIATION

15 October 2014:

World’s First Charity Formed to Tackle Impending Catastrophe of Antibiotic Resistance – National

14 October 2014:

World’s First Charity Formed to Tackle Impending Catastrophe of Antibiotic Resistance – Regional