A fresh warning has been issued about the over-use of antibiotics.
A study in England shows prescriptions in hospitals rose by 12 percent over the last three years.
Public Health England is calling for Doctors to stop handing out the pills for minor illnesses like coughs and colds.
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According to ITV, the report focused on bloodstream infections, like septicaemia, and found there was a 6% increase in prescriptions taking the amount from 25.9 daily doses per 1,000 people to 27.4 per 1,000.
About one in 25 "bugs" that cause bloodstream infections, septicaemia, are resistant to at least one key antibiotic ingredient.
In the same period the amount of antibiotics prescribed by GPs for infections rose 4%.
