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Inhaled therapy for asthma

While the intention of this article is to review inhaled therapies, it is also worth considering oral therapies for asthma..

Developing a competency framework for designated prescribing practitioners

The new regulatory standards, in the context of expanding the DMP role, have potential benefits and challenges. The expansion of the role to include all prescribing professions may improve access to...

Prescribing for persistent cancer pain: focus on chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy

The use of systemic chemotherapy as a treatment modality for cancer is widely used, with around one-third of all individuals receiving chemotherapy as part of their treatment (National Cancer...

Prescribing inhaled therapy in asthma: health professionals' habits and beliefs

Questionnaires were circulated to delegates attending a series of evening educational meetings around asthma and national guidelines. As there is a growing plethora of combination inhalers, including...

Analysing the Competency Framework for all Prescribers

The National Health Service (NHS) published their Long Term Plan in 2019. It focuses on how the health service can develop over the next ten years with advances in medicine, changing population health...

Delayed prescribing of antibiotics for self-limiting respiratory tract infections in an urgent care out-of-hours setting

Acute respiratory tract infection (RTI) is one of the most common presentations in primary care (National Institute for Health Care Excellence (NICE), 2008). RTIs include the common cold, sore throat,...

The developing role of the paramedic prescriber

In order to provide some additional contextualisation, I will describe my own clinical practice and how prescribing fits this. I studied full time for an FdSc in Paramedic Science, followed by part...

Safer consulting in minor illness: Evaluation of an online educational programme for community pharmacists

In 2015, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) was commissioned to develop an educational programme for CPs in Essex, which combined 10 sessions of online learning with one day of face-to-face teaching...

SAFER: A mnemonic to improve safety-netting advice in prescribing practice

The first step in safety-netting involves a formal, holistic assessment of whether it is appropriate to send the patient home to monitor themselves, rather than arranging for the patient to undergo a...

Accountability and prescribing

Prescribers can be called to account for their actions by (Figure 1):.

Right diagnosis, right treatment: SAFER PRACTICES

‘Trainees would benefit from explicit training in clinical (diagnostic) reasoning, patient safety, human factors, critical thinking, managing uncertainty, cognitive heuristics and biases, test...

Human factors and safe prescribing

Prescribing legislation in the UK is some of the most liberal worldwide (Kroezen et al, 2011), requiring robust safeguards to ensure patient safety is not compromised. Errors in prescribing are...

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