Freedom of Information request - prescribing of antibiotics

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Dear NHS Dartford Gravesham and Swanley Clinical Commissioning Group,

We are currently researching the change in GP prescribing behaviour in urinary tract infections.

Please can you provide us with the following information:

Do you have a formulary used by primary care prescribers? If so, what is the current status of nitrofurantoin and trimethoprim with respect to urinary tract infections (e.g. first line, second line, etc)

Has the status of either nitrofurantoin or trimethoprim changed in the formulary since November 2014? If so, can you please provide the previous status(es) and details of the date(s) of change.

Have you had any work plans in place with respect to nitrofurantoin and trimethoprim prescribing since 2014? If so, can you please provide documents and start date.

Have you had any GP prescribing incentive schemes or similar which relate to trimethoprim or nitrofurantoin prescribing since November 2014? If so, can you please provide the documents.

Yours faithfully,

Ben Goldacre and Richard Croker

VALENTINE, Mary (NHS SWALE CCG), NHS Dartford Gravesham and Swanley Clinical Commissioning Group

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Ref:    DGS 144 Goldacre

Date:  7 November 2017

 

Dear Mr Goldacre

 

Thank you for your email dated 6 November 2017  requesting information
about GP prescribing behaviour in urinary tract infections.

 

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Yours sincerely,

                 
                                                                                                                                                                                             

Mary Valentine

 

Mary Valentine Business Co-Ordinator

 

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VALENTINE, Mary (NHS SWALE CCG), NHS Dartford Gravesham and Swanley Clinical Commissioning Group

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From: VALENTINE, Mary (NHS SWALE CCG) On Behalf Of [email address]
Sent: 15 November 2017 10:21
To: '[FOI #443998 email]'
Subject: FOI Request

 

Dear Mr Goldacre

 

Further to your FOI request dated 7 November 2017 I now have pleasure in
attaching formal response.

With best wishes

 

 

Mary Valentine

 

Mary Valentine Business Co-Ordinator

 

Direct line: 03000 424901

Email: [1][email address]

Base: NHS DGS CCG (Gravesend)

 

NHS Swale and NHS Dartford Gravesham and Swanley Clinical Commissioning 
Groups

 

NHS DGS CCG, 2nd Floor, Gravesham Civic Centre, Windmill Street, Gravesend
Kent DA12 1AU  [2]www.dartfordgraveshamswanleyccg.nhs.uk

 

NHS Swale CCG, Bramblefield Clinic, Grovehurst Road, Kemsley,
Sittingbourne Kent ME10 2ST [3]www.swaleccg.nhs.uk

 

For information on how to make a complaint or submit a Freedom of
Information Request for NHS Dartford Gravesham and Swanley CCG and NHS
Swale CCG please see the relevant CCG website:
[4]www.dartfordgraveshamswanleyccg.nhs.uk or [5]www.swaleccg.nhs.uk

 

Please send all re quests for copies of personal data (Subject Access
request/Data Protection Act) to [6][email address]  or by
post to SECSU – Information Governance, Kent House, 81 Station Road,
Ashford TN23 1PP.

 

 

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