Fleming Initiative

@FlemingCentre

We can control the spread of antimicrobial resistance and keep antibiotics working. A partnership between @imperialcollege and @ImperialNHS.

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Fleming Initiative @FlemingCentre Aug 20

What does it take to keep antimicrobials working for the next 100 years?

This mural captures our approach at the Fleming Initiative: bringing scientists, clinicians, policymakers and the public together to develop and deliver solutions against antimicrobial resistance (#AMR)

Illustrated mural showing the Fleming Initiative’s vision for keeping antimicrobials working for the next 100 years. At the centre of the design is a building, with different floors depicting research and action on antimicrobial resistance. The floorplan signifies the Initiative’s co-location model as different professionals and public members are illustrated as working side-by-side towards AMR solutions: people’s opinion from the exhibition fed into research questions, data from research presented in policy roundtables. Surrounding illustrations also emphasises the Initiative’s collaborative approach with global partners, and its convening role in areas including global fellowships, surveillance, education, diagnostics and national action plans. Three pillars underpinned the Initiative: science and innovation; public engagement, involvement and behaviour change; and informed policy. The illustration also references Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin at St Mary’s Hospital.

Fleming Initiative @FlemingCentre 4d

A new study by researchers from the Fleming Initiative and @CityStGeorges reported the disproportionately high burden and worse outcomes of urinary tract infections (#UTI) among older adults living in care homes.

🔗 fleminginitiative.org/post/older-car…

🔗thelancet.com/journals/lanhl…

An illustration of medial report, with text reads: New publication from the Fleming Initiative; Prevalence, management, and outcomes of urinary tract infections in older adults living in care homes versus older adults living outside care homes in the UK: a propensity score-matched case–control analysis.

Fleming Initiative @FlemingCentre Nov 5

📢We’re looking for an experienced Communications Manager to join the Fleming Initiative and help translate international research, data and evidence into meaningful policy and public engagement.

For more info and to submit your application by 15 Nov:
imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jo…

www.imperial.ac.uk Description Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

Fleming Initiative @FlemingCentre Nov 2

In his latest op-ed for The Washington Post, our Executive Chair, Professor the Lord Darzi, challenges the lack of meaningful action on #AntibioticResistance - one of the defining threats of our century.

Read the full article: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

www.washingtonpost.com Opinion | Bacteria are beating antibiotics. Here’s the most frustrating part. The U.S. government has clear solutions, if only it would use them.

Fleming Initiative @FlemingCentre Oct 28

Our Executive Chair, Lord Ara Darzi, and his scientific advisor Dr Amish Acharya, argue argue that we need to look beyond infection rates to understand the full impact of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (#CPE) in NHS hospitals.

thetimes.com/comment/column…

www.thetimes.com Deadly superbug should have the NHS on high alert The spread of bacteria that make enzymes which destroy our antibiotics of last resort is what worries us the most