Informing Antibiotic Guardianship to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance: The Liverpool Citizens’ Jury on AMR

Abstract

The Liverpool Citizens’ Jury was a public consultation on the use of health data to tackle the significant problem of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and is the first step in creating a local AMR network with national and international relevance. The 18 jurors were tasked with learning about AMR as it relates to research and considered how organisations might collect, share and utilise pseudo-anonymised patient data. The overarching aim is to produce a new model supporting societal change focused on Antibiotic Guardianship and to combat the public health challenge of AMR. The model will be implemented in the UK and provided to an international network enabling global knowledge transfer.

Keywords

• citizen jury
• public engagement
• deliberative democracy
• AMR
• antimicrobial resistance
• data