Practice-level prescribing data to be online by September 2012
Practice-level prescribing data will be published online by September 2012, the government has annou...
PCTs curb GP prescribing freedom
PCTs impose stringent prescribing controls, but can GP commissioners solve the problem? Tom Moberly ...
Exclusive: PCTs 'blacklist' drugs backed by NICE
GPs have been barred from prescribing drugs recommended by NICE because PCTs have 'blacklisted' the ...
Targets force hospitals to tackle prescribing costs
Efficiency targets will force hospitals to adopt the same cost-effective prescribing measures that G...
Practice staff guard against prescribing errors, study finds
Practice staff are an important safeguard against repeat prescribing errors, research suggests....
Hospitals fail to match GPs' cost-effective prescribing
Hospital doctors are failing to match GPs' efforts to contain prescribing costs, with drug spends in...
DoH could hand pharmacists power to alter GP scrips unilaterally
Plans to allow pharmacists to change prescriptions without consulting prescribers could blur clinica...
Prescribe professionally and safely
Good decision-making in the evaluation of drug interactions is essential, says Dr Simon Young....
Prescribing - Ensuring safe use of anticoagulants
Prescribers must ensure that it is safe to issue repeat prescriptions for anticoagulants, writes Dr ...
Northern Ireland LMCs want limits on GP prescribing
LMCs have called for a 'limited list' of drugs that GPs can prescribe in Northern Ireland, to help t...
