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Antibiotic Campaigns

GP Information

GPs and pharmacists receive a red/green mouse mat and poster as part of HSE winter communications. Additional posters and kids stickers can be ordered from www.healthpromotion.ie  - please follow the online instructions for professional registration/login.

  • Preferred Antibiotic use in the Community Green Red Table

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  • If your doctor says you don’t need an antibiotic, that’s ok.

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  • Think You Need an Antibiotic? Think Again

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Patient Information

  • Under the Weather Stickers for Children

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Safe Antibiotics videos

  • Protecting antibiotics – a message for prescribers
  • Keep antibiotics working for the future

Audit Tools

  • Audit tool for Southdoc and Ddoc GPs participating in the pilot project on antibiotic usage
  • Instructions on how to use the Audit Tool

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