Prescribing Review

Each quarter the PPD produces an article discussing national guidance, recent clinical trials and prescribing trends for a specific area of prescribing. These articles are available on the PPD website at:
http://www.ppa.org.uk/ppa/download_pdf.htm#prescreview

The Prescribing Review is a one page report which shows the prescribing performance of the practice for the specific drug groupings that are the subject of each quarter's article. The practice prescribing costs and items are also shown in comparison with the local PCT equivalent values.

The Prescribing Review and its associated article replace the old 4-page Centre Pages report that was contained within the PACT Standard report.

From the written article the PPD then specify the drug groupings that will format the bar charts and grid area for the Prescribing Review. Once the drug groupings have been decided then the actual BNF chapters are determined for which they require the data for this quarters report.

Header Information

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The header information on the Prescribing Review contains:

• Title
  For all quarters, the title of 'Prescribing Review' above a sub-title which always begins 'Practice Prescribing and Spending on' followed by the drug group collective name that the 3 page article relates to for that quarter.



• Reporting Period
  For the quarter for which the prescribing was attributed.



• Practice Information
  For the practice to which the Prescribing Review report relates, the name of the practice appears here, along with the practice code, and the first line of the practice's address.

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Report Content

This section shows the prescribing and spending for the practice in a particular drug group area and compares performance of the practice (in relation to the subject contained in the article) against organisations of a similar composition within the same PCT.

• Bar Chart
  

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This shows Costs and Items for the practice (for the drug groups specified) and compares these figures against the PCT equivalent for the practice. The Items are shown in red where as the Costs are shown in blue. The drug group names are shown on the left hand side of the Bar Chart. The PCT Equivalent figures are based on the actual figures for the local PCT (for the PCT equivalent calculations the List Size of the PCT and practice are used). The List Size is the total number of patients registered with the practice (including temporary residents and over 65s) as last notified by their PCT.

The PCT equivalent numbers are rounded to the nearest pound or item.

• Grid Area
  

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This shows Costs and Items for the practice per 1000 PU's (for the drug groups specified) and compares these figures against the PCT equivalent Costs and Items figure per 1000 PU's. The drug group names are shown on the left hand side of the Grid. Prescribing Units are used in this section of the report to calculate practice and PCT equivalent values. Patients under 65 year of age and temporary residents count as one Prescribing Units (PU). Patients aged 65 or over count as 3 PU's.

These numbers are rounded to 2 decimal places.

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