Health committee  No.

Health committee  Sorry, that was for stewardship.

Health committee  I think things have somewhat changed in terms of intense change. We have this federal framework and there's been work in terms of developing policy and having FPT partners signing off on this. I consider that a move forward in terms of addressing AMR. There's been increasing mo

Health committee  Thank you for that question and allowing me to clarify. People in and of themselves don't become resistant. It's somewhat of a metaphysical kind of question, because to some degree we're not only what we traditionally think of as ourselves but also the organisms that are in and o

Health committee  I've tried to be clear as much as possible. Most of those things are covered in the framework. I would not underemphasize the issue of leadership. In the U.K., Dame Sally Davies—

Health committee  I think that's probably what you need, to have somebody in Ottawa or anywhere else. You need that point person who is responsible, has ownership, has the mandate to ensure that the right thing is done, and who is also the vocal point. I would just emphasize that in the U.K., the

Health committee  I haven't. I'm sorry.

Health committee  We have not. I'm not familiar with that council. I apologize.

Health committee  Thank you for the question. I do a fair amount of work with emergency physicians in my LHIN in Ontario, my local health integration network. It's really an issue of knowledge translation. Emergency physicians are front-line physicians. As you mentioned, increasingly they play a

Health committee  Thank you for the question. I'll try to be as brief as possible. On the CARSS, Canadian Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System, report, I apologize to the people who have done very hard work on it, but it relies on data of very poor quality, and I don't trust it for the p

Health committee  I just want to point out that it's a common misconception that not completing a course of antibiotics leads to drug resistance. That's been thrown around for decades. It's not correct. It may put people at risk of relapse of their infections, but as I pointed out before, the only

Health committee  Sorry, who's that question directed to?

Health committee  As Shelita mentioned, a paper that came out just this week showed that one out of every five patients who receives antibiotics gets adverse effects that are directly related to the antibiotic. Those adverse effects lead to increased lengths of stay in hospitalized patients. For a

Health committee  I chair the AMMI Canada antimicrobial stewardship and resistance committee. Over the past year, that committee has developed and disseminated tools primarily targeting long-term care facilities initially, around unnecessary antibiotics—

Health committee  I'm sorry. I'm misunderstanding the question.