The research will help GPs and other health professionals improve the use of antibiotics in primary care.

Prof Hay's group at the CAPC is involved in 15 projects including 9 clinical trials which have recruited more than 20,000 patients.

The group's long-term goals are to identify:

• which are the patients who are most likely to benefit from antibiotics
• which are the patients from whom antibiotics can be safely withheld
• which treatments will help patients get over the worst of their symptoms without antibiotics.

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