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Acute trusts — responsibilities

Area prescribing committees

Care trusts

Commission for Health Improvement reviews of PCTs

Generic prescribing by GPs

GP engagement with PCTs

GPs with special interests
GPs with special interests — outpatient clinics

Influences on prescribing — ‘better prescribing’
Influences on prescribing — balancing the drugs budget
Influences on Prescribing — cost
Influences on prescribing — influence of the pharmaceutical industry
Influences on prescribing — new approaches required for the management of medicines expenditure
Influences on prescribing — PCT local formularies
Influences on prescribing — Pharmaceutical/prescribing advisers
Influences on prescribing — Prescription Pricing Authority’s annual report
Influences on prescribing — single-handed versus group practices

Intermediate care

Local delivery plans

Local pharmaceutical services

Medicines management — Room for review: a guide to medication review
Medicines management — concordance
Medicines management — modernisation
Medicines management — prescribing indicators

Medicines management in primary care

Modernisation — NHS modernisation board report

National Medicines Management Services Collaborative Programme

National Prescribing Centre

National service frameworks — older people
National service frameworks — pharmaceutical industry competitiveness task force

New Drugs in Clinical Development

NICE
NICE — Health Select Committee’s report on NICE

Nurse prescribers

Nurses — the expanding role

Patient group directions

PCT clinical governance leads
PCT clinical governance support team

Pharmacists — the expanding role

Primary care formularies

Revised GP contract
Revised GP contract — chronic disease management
Revised GP contract — clinical indicators
Revised GP contract — incentives
Revised GP contract — new roles for PCTs
Revised GP contract — practice management
Revised GP contract — quality indicators
Revised GP contract — three service levels

Supplementary prescribing
Supplementary prescribing — clinical management plans

The role of strategic health authorities

Walk-in centres