Helping to avoid hospital admissions
Various initiatives, supported by the National Prescribing Centre's medicines management collaborative programmes, are seeking to address how better medicines management can help avoid hospital admissions. Zoë Gross reports on three of them
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Prescribing for hypertension and more
Mohammed Ahmed, a prescribing practitioner at Doncaster West Primary Care Trust, shares his experiences of supplementary prescribing
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Thoughts on independent prescribing
In this article, Hugh McGavock, visiting professor of prescribing science, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, explains why he supports supplementary prescribing but not independent prescribing
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How to implement supplementary prescribing in primary care clinics
In this article, Bola Sotubo, pharmacist supplementary prescriber at Melbourne
Grove Practice, Southwark, and Karen Acott, pharmacist supplementary prescriber
and partner, Wallingbrook Health Centre, Devon, give tips for successful supplementary
prescribing
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