Our Achievements

Prescribing

Prescribing is the service that makes sure you get the medication you need. Whether you collect it from your local chemist or at your doctor’s surgery – this service affects you. 

Here at the Central Sheffield GP Consortium, we are making changes to make sure you get a best value, best practice prescribing service.

We have been working closely with GPs, practice nurses and pharmacists and measures already taken have meant we have been able to save an impressive £584,000 over the past year.

This money has gone back into patient services and has helped us to improve prescribing even further.

For example, we are looking at a computer programme that will ensure the person giving you your prescription knows, at the touch of a button, the right medication at the right price and safest dose.

Useful websites:

http://www.patient.co.uk/ - Patient information on diseases and drugs
http://www.medguides.medicines.org.uk/ - Medicine guides for patients developed in conjunction with NHS Direct.