Most successful year since starting Antibiotic Amnesty initiative!

This month the Antibiotic Amnesty returned to Imperial College's Hammersmith and South Kensington campuses to promote World Antibiotic Amnesty Week

Back for a third consecutive year the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in HCAI and AMR’s Antibiotic Amnesty proved to be the most successful year since starting the initiative in November 2015.

Members of the HPRU team successfully signed up a record 341 Antibiotic Guardians to the Public Health England website and engaged members of the College community with our unique Antibiotic Play your Cards Right game as well as encouraging them to surrender their unused antibiotics from their medicine cupboards.

This year we received a range of antibiotics including phenoxylmethyl-penicillin, tetralysal lymecycline, clarithromycin and erythromycin that were surrendered by colleagues at the College.

Everyone who signed up to become an Antibiotic Guardian were entered into the Prize Draw to win £100 Amazon vouchers. The winner will be announced before Christmas.