That the Parliament congratulates the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Scotland on increasing awareness of the issue of antimicrobial resistance; notes its efforts to draw attention to the need for new antibiotics to avoid a situation where simple infections and infections as a result of routine surgery become fatal; welcomes its support of the European Antibiotic Awareness Day on 18 November 2014; considers the raft of resources made available to healthcare professionals in primary and secondary care by the Scottish Antimicrobial Prescribing Group (SAPG) to have demonstrated an impact through the decrease of 6.5% in the number of prescriptions for antibiotics in 2013-14; commends healthcare workers for their results to date; further notes the significant challenge that antimicrobial resistance continues to present worldwide; welcomes the SAPG’s focus this year on the cooperation between the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Scotland, Community Pharmacy Scotland and Pharmacy Voice to distribute a resource pack to all community pharmacies in Scotland, including a patient self-help guide to treating infection; acknowledges the role that healthcare professionals, patients and the public play in preserving the effectiveness of antibiotics; notes the opportunity for MSPs, healthcare professionals and members of the public to sign up to become an antibiotic guardian via the website, antibioticguardian.com to ensure that current antibiotics continue to remain effective; further notes that it has been 30 years since a new class of antibiotics was last introduced despite growing numbers of infections becoming resistant to current antibiotics; notes calls for governments, academic research communities, pharmaceutical companies and other stakeholders to work collaboratively to develop a new funding model to incentivise the development and appropriate use of new antibiotics, and wishes the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Scotland every success in its future efforts in dealing with this challenge.