| Reports
in the electronic Prescribing & Financial Information for
Practices Service
The
electronic Prescribing & Financial Information for Practices
service provides electronic prescribing information to practices
throughout England. The service comprises the following reports:
Prescribing
Monitoring Document (PMD)
PMD provides financial information about prescribing costs
against budgets. The purpose of the statements is to show
the cost of prescribing, to enable prescribers to manage the
drugs element of their unified budgets. The report in the
electronic Prescribing & Financial Information for Practices
service includes data from the old paper version of PMD and
in addition, further analysis in the form of charts and calculated
columns.
Statements are issued every month and show:
- the
target prescribing budget for the current financial year
(not shown in April or May)
- total
monthly expenditure
- cumulative
expenditure (April to current month)
- forecast
out-turn (this forecast calculation is based on information
provided by the Department of Health. It is based on a spending
pattern, which has been calculated using the previous years
spending data). The accuracy is determined by local factors
at a local level. The forecast out-turn is not shown on
statements for April and May
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Prescribing
Analysis Report (PAR)
The Prescribing Analysis Report is based on the old paper
PACT Standard Report and contains an analysis of the prescribing
which has taken place for the practice during the reporting
period. It is produced automatically at both a monthly and
quarterly level.
The report shows the total level of prescribing, a breakdown
of prescribing in the 6 highest cost BNF Therapeutic Groups,
the top 20 leading cost drugs in the practice and the top
40 BNF Sections by cost in the practice.
The practice prescribing is also compared with last year's
level and with the PCT and National levels
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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 NHSBSA website at:
http://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/PrescriptionServices/945.aspx.
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.
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Practice
Detailed Prescribing Information (PDPI)
PDPI provides data similar to the old paper PACT Catalogue
Prescribing Information, however in electronic Prescribing
& Financial Information for Practices the exact content of
the report is customisable and the user is given the following
choices:
- Choose
one or more months from up to 24 months of data
- Choose
a report for a single prescriber, all prescribers or the
whole practice
- Choose
a BNF chapter or all chapters
- Choose
a level of the BNF at which to report, from Total BNF down
to the level of quantity prescribed per presentation
- Choose
whether to report all prescribing for the practice or just
items prescribed and dispensed by the practice
- Choose
the type of report required - with a detailed listing of
costs and items or a summary report comparing the practices
prescribing with the same period last year and with the
local PCT
- Choose
ordering by prescriber or BNF
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Note: The Prescribing/PMD
Technical Guide provides more detailed explanation of
some of the terms used with these reports.
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