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Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in UK: Vets & Farmers working together

The UK’s University of Bristol has been promoting good management practices to reduce the need for antibiotics in farming in partnership with veterinarians who work at the Langford Practice in Bristol.

Duration 12m20s

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Video Type Video News Release (VNR)

Date 04/05/2018 12:27 AM

File size 911.34 MB

Unique ID UF2ENE

All editorial uses permitted

Production details and shotlist

UNFAO Source FAO Video

Shotlist LOCATIONS: Gordano, Bristol, UK

DATE: November 2017

TRT: 12’20”

AUDIO: Natural, English

SOURCE: FAO

ACCESS: ALL

Footage:

00.00 – 00.10 York, UK 05.01.2018

W/S of the river in York City, UK

W/S of a street with shoppers walking past

00.10 – 01.40 Bristol University Farm, Bristol, 23.11.2017

GVs of Professor David Barrett at the Bristol University farm looking at cows feeding and climbing into a pen with well-looked after calves

01.40 – 02.22 Bristol University Campus, Bristol, 23.11.2017

GV of Andrea Turner walking out of her Langford Veterinary practice,

GV of Andrea Turner getting into her van

Interior GV of Andrea Turner driving the van

02.22– 03.30 Letts Farm, Clapton in Gordano, Bristol, UK   23.11.2017 – 24.11.2017

GV of Andrea Turner’s van arriving at the Letts farm

GV of Andrea Turner getting out of her van and opening up the back

C/U of Andrea Turner opening up a box, taking out a bottle and looking at it

C/U of Andrea Turner putting on gloves

W/S of Andrea Turner walking towards a farm building with a box

C/U of Andrea Turner’s gloved hand closing a gate

03.30– 04.22 Letts Farm, Clapton in Gordano, Bristol, UK   23.11.2017 – 24.11.2017

GVs of Andrea preparing a vaccination treatment and carrying out veterinary checks on calves

GV of Andrea Turner listening to an animal through a stethoscope

04.22– 06.15 Letts Farm, Clapton in Gordano, Bristol, UK   23.11.2017 – 24.11.2017

GV of Andrea Turner talking to farmers as they work in their milking parlour

GV of Andrea Turner applying ointment to a cow’s eye helped by Henry Letts

Tracking shot of Henry Letts, in the parlour, wearing gloves and keeping the cows udders clean

GV of Andrea working on her lap top talking to the farmers,

06.15– 06.21

Soundup of Andrea Turner saying ‘Hundred-day in calf-rates are looking pretty good. Well done there!’

06.21– 06.59 Letts Farm, Clapton in Gordano, Bristol, UK   23.11.2017 – 24.11.2017

GVs of calm, healthy cows drinking from clean water points and eating hay,

GV of the Letts farm – calm cows in well stocked, clean barns undergoing dry cow therapy

Interviews:

Andrea Turner, Bristol, UK

- Letts Farm, Clapton in Gordano, Bristol, UK   23.11.2017

1. 07.00 – 07.12

I see the role of the vet in the fight against antimicrobial resistance as a crucial one, really. Farmers wouldn’t have antibiotics if they weren’t prescribed by vets.

2. 07.12 – 07.26

As a profession we need to be thinking about using as little as possible but as much as necessary, antimicrobials. Really to protect the industry, the food chain and, ultimately human health.

3. 07.26 – 07.44

So we decided as a first step to concentrate on what we call critically important antimicrobials. These are ones that have been targeted and highlighted by the World Health Organization as critically important for human health.

4. 07.44 – 07.58

So we were hoping to educate both ourselves along the way, and our clients and farmers so that not only did they not use them in their animals, but they understood why it was important that they weren’t using them.

5. 07.58 – 08.23

One way that we decided to tackle this and bring these changes onto farms, was work through herd health planning and herd health monitoring. And that was a really a really great tool for us to be able to do that. So when we were coming out to maybe do a yearly herd health plan with one of our farmers, we could go through all the on-farm treatment protocols and just make one-for-one changes of any critically important antimicrobials that they were using as a first-line treatment.

6. 08.23 – 08.37

They’re really focusing a lot more on the health and the welfare of their animals. And they’re all working a lot harder with us to try and practice preventative medicine rather than going in afterwards and having to treat everything with antibiotics.

7. 08.37 – 08.52

Yields are just as good now as they were before we made the changes. Fertility parameters, udder health parameters are all as good, if not better now than they were before, when we were using these critically important antibiotics on the farms.

David Barrett, Bristol University Bristol, UK

- Bristol University Farm, Clapton in Gordano, Bristol, UK   23.11.2017

8. 08.52 – 09.01

There are many aspects to the research we are doing here at the University of Bristol to combat antimicrobial resistance but an important part of that is working with veterinary surgeons in practice.

9. 09.01 – 09.13

Andrea Turner is working with farm clients within the practice to reduce and ultimately remove the use of the high priority critically important antimicrobials on their farms.

10. 09.13 – 09.32

It’s important that farmers and vets have access to them in the rare situations where they might be needed, when organisms are shown to be resistant to other antimicrobials through laboratory testing but we should not be using those medicines on a daily basis and we have stopped doing that for a number of years here at the University of Bristol

11. 09.32 – 09.45

So while it is the responsibility of every vet, every farmer, every physician to use antimicrobials responsibly, it is also something that requires global leadership. This is a global problem.

12. 09.45 – 10.14

While national leadership is important international leadership is also very important. The WHO, FAO, UN and others have made various commitments in recent years and individual national governments have signed up to producing national antimicrobial awareness and control plans. This is important. It is very important that the agricultural communities, the health organisations, the veterinary profession throughout the world work together to combat this problem.

13. 10.14 – 10.20

It is a global problem. It is a challenge. But it is one that we can meet if we all work together.

Benn Letts, Farmer, Bristol, UK

- Letts Farm, Clapton in Gordano, Bristol, UK   23.11.2017

14. 10.20 – 10.36

Definitely monitoring records has been really beneficial throughout. Without a shadow of a doubt, it has helped. And you just see little trends going maybe one way or another and just alter, tweak things slightly to compensate.

15. 10.36 – 11.06

Antibiotic resistance, it has never been a problem, we have never thought it had been a problem within our cows. But really the main thing, or one of the main things, is we’ve got to be seen to be proactive in cutting down antibiotic use in the public eye … on there. We’ve taken an awful lot of flak for an awful lot of trouble and we’ve got to be, with Brexit and everything else now, we’ve got to be even more proactive in being seen to be doing things right.

16. 11.06– 11.19

At the moment we have cut our antibiotic use right down, have for quite a few years now and have seen absolutely no detrimental effect to the cattle at all on there. Probably a benefit.

17. 11.19– 11.38

The understanding of farmers [on there] is only as good as their vets knowledge, or explaining it to farmers, it’s only as good as that. So what you read in the farming press is a guidance, but it’s really the vets have got to promote it. Strongly. They’re the ones who are our main influence on antibiotic use.

Vox Pops:

11.06 -12.20

Teenage Girl

We’ve overused antibiotics when we haven’t needed to use them and so as a result the bugs have mutated and adapted to survive the antibiotics and it’s a real problem.

Middle Aged Man

I mean it worries me generally that there won’t be any provisions for medication to help combat diseases

Middle Aged Woman

I am quite concerned about the overuse of antibiotics. They seem to give them out sort of every touch and turn and I had no idea that they used them in farming either.

Young Woman

Medicines aren’t working in the same way they would and people that are ill can’t be treated. So I think it is an issue that really needs to be dealt with.

Elderly Man

So it’s a problem. Yes. What are you doing about it?

End

Script Antimicrobial Resistance or AMR is a global threat. An estimated 700,000 people die from resistant infections every year. The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is helping countries develop One Health National Action Plans on AMR for the responsible use of antimicrobials from farm to fork. Antimicrobials must be used responsibly in all sectors to keep them working. Changes in agricultural practices are essential for this to happen. Kenya’s AMR National Action Plan follows the One Health approach, prioritizing the prevention of infections to reduce the need for antimicrobials. Healthy animals, just like healthy people, don’t need antibiotics. Actions to improve hygiene, biosecurity and nutrition help to prevent infections.

Farmers need support to change their working practices and should be provided with information about the responsible use of antimicrobials and antibiotics. The overuse of antimicrobials speeds up resistance.

A group of health professionals called the the Bangladesh AMR Response Alliance (BARA) follows the One Health approach to develop new guidance for responsible antimicrobial use in humans and animals.

Professionals across the sector need to work together. National guidelines for prescribing and use of antimicrobials will help veterinarians and farmers. Denmark has reduced the use of antimicrobials through collaboration between farmers, veterinarians and national authorities.

It is essential to keep antibiotics working by using them only when needed. The use of antibiotics can be reduced through good management practices on farms. The UK’s University of Bristol has been promoting good management practices to reduce the need for antibiotics in farming in partnership with veterinarians who work at the Langford Practice in Bristol.

If everyone works together then it will be possible to stay ahead of antimicrobial resistance.

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