Context | Mechanism | Outcome |
---|---|---|
Clinical Commissioning Group engagement with prescribing alerts | Alerts designed and results fowarded to practices | Prescribing patterns and trends benchmarked against national targets and guidelines |
Identify specific patients | Pre-emptive or timely review of individual patients | |
Monitoring prescribing by conducting searches based upon local “initiatives” | Efficient use of time | Prescribing patterns benchmarked across the Clinical Commissioning Group |
Highlight suboptimal prescribing | Reduction of knowledge gaps to optimise use of medicines | |
Reward good practice |