The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7399 p524
6 May 2006

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Hewitt sees pharmacist prescribing benefits

Health secretary Patricia Hewitt visited Dudley Beacon & Castle Primary Care Trust last week and met practice-based pharmacist Nazir Hussain.

Mr Hussain is a supplementary prescriber, predominantly working with patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. At one practice, Mr Hussain’s work has been credited with saving almost £25,000 over the past year, in addition to £93,500 in the previous year. In the past two years, the PCT has saved £1.65m from its prescribing budgets.