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What Next? Summary of Week 4 and Downloadable Action Plan

Watch the video to see how Paul Little uses the TARGET Treating Your Infection leaflet in practice and also summarises back up prescribing

So what can you do now to implement better communication and back up/delayed antibiotic prescribing in your practice? Watch the video to see how Paul Little uses the TARGET Treating Your Infection leaflet in practice and also summarises where back up/delayed antibiotic prescribing can be useful.*

We hope you have enjoyed Week 4 and that you found the videos from Dr Nick Francis and Professor Paul Little useful. If you would like to watch the full video which was included in the PHE TARGET webinar series and includes the live panel discussion please follow this link to the TARGET webinar on Managing Patient Expectations and TARGET webinar on Back Up/Delayed Prescribing.

In Week 5 we will we will look at the importance of correctly prescribing antibiotics for children. We hope that you can join us for this.

Use of health behavioural pledges have shown to increase knowledge and influence behaviour. As part of this course we encourage you to create an action plan like the downloadable version that is available as a link at the bottom of the page. This form also gives you the opportunity to reflect back on each week of the course as you work through them, making valuable notes for future reference.

*The leaflet shown has since been updated and rebranded in line with the Keep Antibiotics Working campaign (in Patient interaction and Discussing Antibiotics)
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