Report suggests new advice needed for taking antibiotics

VOICED: Shows interior shots Alexander Fleming's laboratory including his work desk, medical research equipment and petri dishes in St Mary's Hospital in London. Interior shots customers waiting for prescriptions at a pharmacy and various types of antibiotic packets on shelves. Interview with Antibiotics report author Professor Tim Peto speaking on finding very little evidence to support advice to always complete a course of antibiotics. Interview with Chairwoman of Royal College of GPS Professor Helen Stokes Lampard speaking on need to patients need to always follow advice given by healthcare professionals. Graphics sequence on antibiotic prescriptions in the UK in 2016. (THIS CLIP CONTAINS BLACK HOLES - THIRD PARTY CONTENT) Ever since Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin nearly 90 years ago, doctors have told their patients to finish their course of antibiotics, even if they're feeling back to normal. But now that advice is being questioned by a study which claims taking the drugs for longer than needed increases the risk of diseases becoming resistant on 27th July, 2017 in London, England, UK