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HSCIC said more than 1.06 billion items were prescribed in England last year, an increase of 3.3% on 2013 and a rise of 55.2% on 2004.
In 2014, just over eight million items were prescribed while in 2018 this had risen to more than 14 million.
Most of the non-assignable items were prescribed to patients whose identity was not included in the demographic databases, possibly either because they were non-resident or because they just moved in from a different healthcare district.
Three items were prescribed for the treatment of asthma in children who could not consent to the service (Table 3).
Two recent studies conducted in up to nine hospitals in Britain found that 10.9 and 7.5%% of medication items were prescribed incorrectly [ 8, 9].
50 They found 21.7 fewer items were prescribed per 1000 population for the intervention population over the winter months compared with our finding of 26 fewer items for a whole year.
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From a population of just three million - there are 19m contacts between patients and primary care each year with more than 76m items being prescribed.
While over twelve million items are prescribed each year by the 50,000 qualified NMPs its uptake is inconsistent.
The serving sizes of some items are prescribed by the packaging, for example, a can of soft drink.
Over 12 million items are prescribed each year by NMPs in primary care [ 7] and the extension of prescribing rights to paramedics and other groups of AHPs (including dieticians) is currently under consideration [ 8, 9].
A lot of HONcode principles did not apply (e.g. these sites have no ads, most items are prescribed by law), and DISCERN is considering content quality only, but not other factors such as ease of use and other factors important for website visitors seeking diverse information pertaining not primarily to treatment options but to the department or clinic itself.
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