Educational interventions delivered to prescribing advisers to influence primary care prescribing: a very low-cost pragmatic randomised trial using routine data from OpenPrescribing.net.

ABSTRACT:

Background

NHS England issued commissioning guidance on 18 low-priority treatments which should not be routinely prescribed in primary care. We aimed to monitor the impact of an educational intervention delivered to regional prescribing advisors by senior pharmacists from NHS England on the primary care spend on low-priority items.

Methods

An opportunistic randomised, controlled parallel-group trial. Participants (clinical commissioning groups, CCGs) were randomised to intervention or control in a 1:1 ratio. The intervention group were invited to participate. The intervention was a one-off educational session. Our primary outcomes concerned the total prescribing of low-priority items in primary care. Secondary outcomes concerned the prescribing of specific low-priority items

SUBMITTER: Curtis HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11854403 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature