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Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy and Scottish Action Plan
Key players
The following list indicates the range of Scottish Executive and UK Government departments, organisations, groups and individuals with an interest in this strategy in Scotland. It is by no means - nor intended to be - exhaustive.
Scottish Executive:
The Medicines Control Agency (MCA) of the Department of Health, and the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (formerly MAFF) which have UK-wide remits.
The Institute of Biomedical Science
National Health Service:
NHS Boards, NHS Trusts, Local Health Care Co-operatives
Drug and Therapeutics Committees
Health professionals - doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, public health physicians, infection control nurses and their relevant professional societies
Local authorities (food laboratories)
Private healthcare sector
Veterinary professionals, veterinary practitioners and nurses and their relevant professional societies
The Scottish Agricultural College - Veterinary Science Division SAC (VSD)
The Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health (SCIEH)
The Health Education Board for Scotland (HEBS)
The Clinical Standards Board for Scotland
The Health Technology Board for Scotland
The Scottish Medicines Consortium
The Scottish Consumer Council
The Scottish Royal Colleges
The NHS Education Board for Scotland - which has subsumed the Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education, the National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting for Scotland and the Scottish Centre for Post qualification Pharmaceutical Education
Scottish Affairs Committee of the Royal College of Pathologists
Scottish Affairs Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
Scottish Affairs Committee of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK
The Scottish Infection Standards and Strategy Group of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of Edinburgh and Glasgow
Association of Medical Microbiologists
Association of Clinical Microbiologists
The Royal College of General Practitioners Scottish Council
The Royal College of Nursing
The Royal College of Midwives
The Association of Infection Control Nurses
The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
12 Scottish Universities teaching health care professionals
British Medical Association
Scottish General Practitioners Committee
British Dental Association
Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Scottish Department
The Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries
British Veterinary Association
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Food Standards Agency
Health and Safety Executive
Royal Environmental Health Institute for Scotland
National Farmers Union (NFU)
Responsible Use of Medicine in Animals (RUMA) Alliance (co-ordinated by the NFU)
The whole food chain, including the food industry
The general public and consumer groups
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