Antibiotic Prescribing: Provision of social norm feedback to high prescribers of antibiotics in general practice: a pragmatic national randomised controlled trial (Mar-16)

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Draft Royal Pharmaceutical Society guidance on Prescribing Specials is out for consultation (Nov-15)

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Network meta-analysis finds significant differences between types of placebo and improvements in pain score (Nov-15)

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Prescribing: FY1 and FY2 doctors at a tertiary care renal unit made more prescribing errors than other prescribers (Oct-15)

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NPC Archive Item: NPC Podcast – 29 March 2012

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. Join the NPC evidence-based therapeutics team as they discuss some important recent studies and therapeutic news. This month: Review aliskiren prescribing Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and risk of hip […]

NPC Archive Item: Getting evidence adopted into practice: a complex problem not just a complicated one

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. 13 January 2012 The most recent MeReC Bulletin (December 2011) considers the problem of the implementation gap: the best evidence often does not get adopted quickly into practice. It […]

NPC Archive Item: New QIPP e-learning resources available as well as updated heart failure and asthma materials.

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. 8 November 2011 The NPC has produced thirteen sets of e-learning resources to support organisations and prescribers in making best use of the NPC’s document QIPP – Key therapeutic […]

NPC Archive Item: Pioglitazone▼ and the occurrence of bladder cancer

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. 24 June 2011 The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published an update on their ongoing benefit-risk review of pioglitazone▼–containing medicines and the occurrence of bladder cancer. The Committee for […]

NPC Archive Item: New meta-analysis on intensive statin therapy supports NICE guidance

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. 4 May 2011 A large meta-analysis (>40,000 patients) of randomised controlled trials did not find a statistically significant reduction in all-cause or cardiovascular (CV) mortality with intensive statin therapy, […]

NPC Archive Item: Meta-analysis supports SSRIs as initial drug treatment for anxiety

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. 4th May 2011 This meta-analysis of 27 randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of nine drug treatments for generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) ranked sertraline first for tolerability and fluoxetine first for […]