[log in to unmask],Net writes:
>Of course, since most
>scripts are issued on computer these days, it is daft that the PACT
>data is
>built up from those laboriously entered paper forms arriving in
>Newcastle...
>one of my enduring memories of 1997 was the Panorama programme on
>prescription fraud and the apparently "historic" black and white
>footage of
>women counting prescriptions, which changed into modern colour pictures!
Indeed so.
1. A significant proportion of my prescriptions now are private ones
which will never show up in PACT.
2. Three years ago I wrote the basic routines for analysis of the
prescribing data on my Surgey Manager installation, and have used it
since to construct formulary entries and the like. No competent
solution should be without the ability to produce a list of all
preparations used by a GP in a particular time period, ordered by
frequency.
WHether the cost information is worth ordering as well is a question
which GPs may come to a different answer from accountants on.
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