Prescribing costs. Braking point.
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.
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South Manchester PCG/South Manchester University Hospitals Trust.
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Johnson
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McKnight
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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
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents