This year during World AMR Awareness Week (18-24 November) the Department of Health, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) and the Public Health Agency (PHA) are reminding the public of the importance of working together to keep antibiotics working. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) means antibiotics are becoming less effective at treating the bacterial infections they are needed for. We use more antibiotics than we need to and this overuse is making bacteria more resistant. If we continue in this way, we could face a return to the days before antibiotics were