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Urinary Tract Infections

Checked: 23-10-2022 by Vicky Ryan Next Review: 22-10-2024

Overview

Clinical Knowledge Summaries has advice on assessment and management of UTI in primary care and when to refer:

Urinary tract infection (lower) - women

Urinary tract infection (lower) - men

Pyelonephritis - acute

Local Guidelines

Local guidelines have been developed by the local antimicrobial teams and a pharmacist with special interest in antibiotics and can be found in the BNSSG Formulary Local guidelines on Infections. Please see the Lower UTI Guidance, Recurrent UTIs in Women (2021),  Acute Pyelonephritis in Adults Guideline May 19 and UTI Nursing Home Form as required. 

The BNSSG Primary Care Antimicrobial guidelines  on the BNSSG formulary website also has advice on prescribing for UTI.



Efforts are made to ensure the accuracy and agreement of these guidelines, including any content uploaded, referred to or linked to from the system. However, BNSSG ICB cannot guarantee this. This guidance does not override the individual responsibility of healthcare professionals to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual patient, in consultation with the patient and/or guardian or carer, in accordance with the mental capacity act, and informed by the summary of product characteristics of any drugs they are considering. Practitioners are required to perform their duties in accordance with the law and their regulators and nothing in this guidance should be interpreted in a way that would be inconsistent with compliance with those duties.

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