Independent report: National overprescribing review report

Independent report: National overprescribing review report The findings and recommendations of the national overprescribing review led by Dr Keith Ridge, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for England.

The review sets out a series of practical and cultural changes to ensure patients are receiving the most appropriate treatment for their needs while ensuring clinicians’ time is well spent and taxpayer money is spent wisely. This includes better use of technology, how to review prescriptions more effectively, and how to offer alternatives to medicines where they would be more effective. Department of Health and Social Care

See also: 

• Government pledges to reduce overprescribing of medicines Department of Health and Social Care
• College hits back at anti-GP media coverage on prescribing Royal College of General Practitioners
• We welcome review into overprescribing Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Overprescribing of medicines must stop, says government BBC News
• Government review finds 10% of drugs dispensed in England are pointless The Guardian
• Ministers to crack down on overprescription of medicines on the NHS The Independent