Talk by Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer, England and Trustee of Cumberland Lodge (Registered charity: 1108677 www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk)
Antibiotics add 20 years to our lives and for the last 70 years, since the manufacture of penicillin in 1943, they have allowed us to survive extraordinary operations and life threatening infections. However, resistance to our current range of antibiotics is the new inconvenient truth.
Dame Sally Davies, the first woman to hold the post of Chief Medical Officer for England and is the independent advisor to the Government on medical matters