Doctors appear to be a bit too trigger-happy when it comes to giving patients antibiotics.
A study conducted in 2015 and 2016 found that at any one time, more than half the patients in acute hospitals were on one or more antimicrobials - an umbrella term for drugs, including antibiotics, that destroy micro-organisms.
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