title: Patient group directions in nurse-led sexual health clinics.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This article details an audit of the supply of medications by specialist nurses at a genitourinary medicine clinic.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The use of patient group directions resulted in a reduced number of prescriptions being required from doctors, thus saving time for them, the nurses and patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London. kmiles@gum.ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miles
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Penny
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rees
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: MacDougal
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D002181:Candidiasis, Vulvovaginal / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000451:nursing*; D002985:Clinical Protocols / Q000592:standards*; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009731:Nursing Audit; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D013997:Time Factors; D016585:Vaginosis, Bacterial / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000451:nursing*