Challenges in prescribing practice

The last research roundup provided you with an overview of articles looking at prescribing practices in hypertension (Robertson, 2022). This month we look at some articles which report on barriers and challenges in prescribing practice. The first article looks at error reporting in primary care and the identified barriers and facilitators to reporting. The second looks at the complexities of prescribing for Parkinson's disease in an unplanned care setting. The final article looks at strategies to improve prescribing of anticholinergic drugs in an elderly population.

This piece of original research published in the BMJ Open online in January 2022, sought to explore the barriers to and facilitators of reporting detected prescribing errors in a primary care setting (Hall et al, 2022). This setting was to include general practices, community pharmacies and other community care settings in the northeast region of England to generate a greater understanding of factors that may influence error reporting behaviours in this sector.