THOROUGHBRED HORSES 
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Published: 30 Oct 2025
Author(s): Jane Heller
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The requirement for increased antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) across all industries and the knowledge that sub-optimal prescribing occurs in the veterinary industry dictates that work to engage prescribers and users of antibiotics within the equine industry is required. Externalisation of the responsibility for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an issue within all prescribing professions, and it has been well reported that individuals may erroneously think that the contribution of their area of interest is less than others, which results in reduced engagement.
Confidence not to prescribe antimicrobial agents or to change antimicrobial selection in appropriate clinical diseases or procedures requires individual experience, cultural change across the industry and published evidence of equal or improved outcomes. Veterinarians do benchmark their practices against each other, therefore the engagement of key opinion leaders with experience in a refined approached to antimicrobial use is required. In the last 10 years, the ‘right to prescribe’ and community support for the use of antimicrobial agents has been exposed to greater scrutiny nationally and internationally, with calls for accountability in prescribing. The best approach for all industries is to develop workable and evidence-based frameworks for prescribing and to resource the social and cultural change required using the expertise within and external to each sector.
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