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CCGs are taking steps to ‘optimise’ GP prescribing after budget overspends, finds Caroline Price
GPs face closer scrutiny of their prescribing after CCGs warned they were overspending drug budgets – in some cases by millions of pounds.
Information obtained by Pulse shows that several CCGs expect to report large overspends on their prescribing budgets for 2013/14, despite the ongoing QIPP challenge to reduce NHS costs.
CCG leaders blame the overspend on unexpected hikes in the prices of ‘high volume’ generic drugs and general growth in demand, and say they will be stepping up schemes to ‘optimise’ GP prescribing as a result this year.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/20006884.article#.U42Q4vldWAg
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GPs face closer scrutiny of their prescribing after CCGs warned they were overspending drug budgets – in some cases by millions of pounds.
Information obtained by Pulse shows that several CCGs expect to report large overspends on their prescribing budgets for 2013/14, despite the ongoing QIPP challenge to reduce NHS costs.
CCG leaders blame the overspend on unexpected hikes in the prices of ‘high volume’ generic drugs and general growth in demand, and say they will be stepping up schemes to ‘optimise’ GP prescribing as a result this year.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/20006884.article#.U42Q4vldWAg
(free registration)