title: Prescribing costs. Braking point.
abstract: A joint hospital, health authority and PCG initiative to improve prescribing has produced significant savings in the PCG involved. The venture included the appointment of a medicines management pharmacist to work with practices, and a survey to ascertain GPs' prescribing needs. GPs considered the most important issues to be developing local disease management guidelines, education and repeat prescribing. Guidelines on dyspepsia management have resulted in a 4.9 per cent reduction in the cost of prescribing gastrointestinal drugs. Antibiotic prescribing has also fallen.
authors.affiliation: South Manchester PCG/South Manchester University Hospitals Trust.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Reid
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cooke
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: McKnight
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D017046:Cost Savings; D019468:Disease Management; D016527:Drug Costs; D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017723:Drug Utilization Review / Q000191:economics*; D004415:Dyspepsia / Q000188:drug therapy; D004739:England; D005194:Family Practice / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D013222:State Medicine; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents