Implementation of timely drug reporting
A joint collaboration with pharmacy and finance
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, North East and Yorkshire, Acute
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Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, North East and Yorkshire, Acute
Our trust spend on drugs is approximately £275m per annum, which is 17% of overall spend. Information provided to our clinical support units (CSUs) for them to be sighted on the financial implications of prescribing decisions was prepared quarterly using the trust’s pharmacy system. This required manipulation and intervention by the finance team to present outputs in a meaningful format, plus pharmacy involvement to add further analysis and context. As the trust reports its financial results on working day one, these arrangements were time consuming and historical, providing less time to act upon and to influence CSU drug prescribing habits and costs.
How might we move to timely reporting of monthly and ad hoc drug spend tailored to a CSU, but also allow instant drill down analysis into specific issues/ trends or spikes?
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