PCRS advocates that: 

• All healthcare professionals have a duty to maintain antibiotics stewardship;
• Healthcare policy makers need to invest in ways to ensure antibiotics are prescribed appropriately;
• Antimicrobial stewardship should be a measure of quality of healthcare service provision;
• Commissioners should prioritise measures that improve decision-making regarding antibiotic prescribing;
• Research into all respiratory infection especially tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) should be supported;
• There should be increased public awareness and education around antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the risks associated with this; and
• There should be further research and development of guidelines on the best practice in prescribing antibiotics and the importance of sputum for managing respiratory infection in primary care setting.