OBJECTIVE--To assess the impact on general practitioners and hospital consultants of
hospital outpatient dispensing policies in England. DESIGN--Postal questionnaire and …

OBJECTIVE--To describe the outpatient dispensing policies of major acute hospitals in
England. DESIGN--Postal questionnaire survey in November 1990. SETTING--All (278) …

Twenty-seven general practitioners associated with the Department of Community Health
and General Practice, TCD, agreed to record details of the drugs prescribed on 30 …

Conflict over who isresponsible for prescribing for hospital outpatients has recently caused
sparks to fly at the general practice-hospital interface. The concern is that cash limited …

Objectives: Prescribing costs have risen significantly over the past decade and this has led
to increasing pressure on general practitioners (GPs) to control their prescribing budgets …

BACKGROUND: The volume and cost of prescribing varies considerably between practices.
This variation is at least in part due to the prescribing behaviour of individual doctors, who …

BACKGROUND: Both the government and the pharmaceutical industry are interested in
increasing the use of over-the-counter (OTC) medicines. The reaction on the part of general …

Although there is evidence that collaboration between doctors and pharmacists results in the
more cost-effective use of medicines, the input of pharmacists into the prescribing process …

BACKGROUND: The content of discharge prescriptions/summaries to improve
communication about medication provided at discharge has been the subject of recent …

OBJECTIVE--To examine differences in prescribing between dispensing and non-
dispensing practices. SETTING--The 108 practices covered by Lincolnshire Family Health …