Status:: Published
Posted:: 03 December 2018

Six months on – NHS England needs to focus on dissemination, implementation and audit of its Low-Priority Initiative

A letter to the JRSM, describing the changes in prescribing following the first six months of guidance on low-prioirty medicines from NHS England.

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2018

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This is a letter in the JRSM regarding the NHS England low-priority medicines initiative 2017 which described a range of medicines that should not be routinely prescribed in primary care. It notes how prescribing patterns changed in the 6 months since it was introduced.

Authors

Alex Walker,
Ben Goldacre,
Brian MacKenna,
Helen Curtis,
Richard Croker,
Seb Bacon

Citation

Walker AJ, Bacon S, Curtis H, Croker R, MacKenna B, Goldacre B. Six months on: NHS England needs to focus on dissemination, implementation and audit of its low-priority initiative. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 2019;112(1):4-5.

DOI

10.1177/0141076818808429