Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board

“Archwood Medical Practice have undertaken an audit of their patient records to identify all patients with a history of drug addiction. A 'pop up' alert will be added to each identified record to ensure that anyone consulting with a patient within this cohort is immediately aware of the history and can therefore consider this history within their clinical decision making.”

“We have recognised the importance of safety in repeat prescribing and the role that General Practice and Community Pharmacy have in this space. Through our Clinical Policy work we have A4 collaborated with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and over the last year, I co-chaired a group to develop a New Repeat Prescribing Toolkit to improve safety and efficiency of repeat prescribing systems in general practices across England (the first of its kind in over 20 yrs). We launched this toolkit at our A”

“We will also take this report to the Mental Health Clinical Effectiveness Group for discussion and shared learning.”

“The Department will continue to support and assure this work to progress against key actions, including ensuring better awareness of eating disorder training and continuing professional development.”