| 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 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.
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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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