RDTC Resources and Services
The RDTC produce a vast array of comprehensive, published resources and provide a wide range of professional, strategic support services to our stakeholders. For further information about these please browse the website or contact us via nuth.nyrdtc.rxsupp@nhs.net if you would like to know more.
Regular Reports and Support Tools
These reports and support tools are produced on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis with detailed and comprehensive data analysis across a wide range of therapeutic areas monitoring national and local guidelines.
| Type | Description | Number |
|---|---|---|
| Financial Headlines | These prescribing data reports monitor the financial impact of primary care prescribing at National, Regional, Integrated Care Board and Sub-Integrated Care Board level. Covering the whole of the BNF and focusing on the most impactful sections and drugs as well the impact of drug price changes | 4 |
| NHS Medicines Optimisation Opportunities | These reports highlight the current position of the ICBs across the North of England in relation to the 16 priorities laid out in the NHSE published guidance titled “National medicines optimisation opportunities 2024/25”. It will incorporate the metrics that are being developed nationally, but also include metrics which are designed to support medicines optimisation opportunities across the North. | 12 |
| Therapeutic reports | These reports looks at prescribing trends in primary care in the most impactful therapeutic areas at SICBL and ICB level. Prescribing data is analysed along with a range of additional datasets such as QOF registers, and Hospital Episodes Statistics data to measure prescribing to outcomes. | 6 |
| Prescriber Support Tools | A range of resources designed to aid prescribers in their decision making. | 5 |
Evidence Evaluation and Guidance Publications
Alongside our regular reports and support tools we also produce written evidence evaluation and guidance publications. These publications are designed to support medicines optimisation teams to get the best possible outcomes from new and existing medicines and ensure the most efficient use of NHS resources.
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| Type | Description | Number |
|---|---|---|
| Evaluation Reports | Evidence-based publications specifically designed to support stakeholder medicines optimisation services. The series aims to maximise health gains through the optimum use of medicines, by influencing and changing prescribing behaviour. | 9 |
| Formulary Assessment Tools | Templates to support local decision-making, pre-populated with information required to make a formulary decision on the specific product. Intended to reduce duplication of effort, with space for the addition of local information as appropriate. | 27 |
| Medicines in Practice | Evidence-based publications designed to support medicines optimisation activities. The series aims to maximise health gains through the optimum use of medicines, by influencing and changing prescribing behaviour. | 9 |
| Medicines or Prescribing Bulletins | Bulletins highlighting current medicines or prescribing issues, designed to provide concise, timely information | 19 |
| New Drug Evaluations | Concise, structured reviews of new drugs recently launched within the NHS. These documents seek to provide a brief overview of the efficacy, safety and cost of new drugs. | 17 |
| Prescribing for Population Health | Bulletins intended to support ICSs to improve the health of the populations they serve, using prescribing data, biomedical literature, and other data sources to provide new insights. | 6 |
| Prescriber Support Tools | Tools to support medicines management teams and prescribers in clinical decision-making, such as comparison tables for a therapeutic class to highlight clinical similarities and differences. | 8 |
| Safer Medication Use | Bulletin series jointly produced with the Yellow Card Centre Northern and Yorkshire, discussing specific drug related safety problems. Provides guidance to ensure safe, appropriate prescribing and raises awareness of adverse drug reaction detection and reporting. | 3 |
| Strategic Insights | Bulletins intended to support ICSs to improve the health of the populations they serve, using prescribing data, biomedical literature, and other data sources to provide new insights. | 6 |
| Shared Care Protocols | Maintenance of a suite of shared care protocols, including timely addition of safety updates and 2-yearly full review. | 17 |
Secretarial, Strategic and Support Services
As well as our published work we also provide a range of professional secretarial, strategic and support services, contact the centre to discuss options in full at nuth.nyrdtc.rxsupp@nhs.net.
| Type | Services Available |
|---|---|
| Strategic Support and Planning | Medicines plan development Group attendance |
| Professional Secretarial Services and Functions | Professional secretarial services Enquiry answering Sharing of group decisions Provision and maintenance of a group website Consultation management |
| Formulary Management | Formulary maintenance. Assessment of formulary applications, full and regular reviews of formulary, and routine amendments to reflect national guidance and safety alerts. |
| Pathways and Guidelines Development and Management | Clinical pathway checking or revision Clinical pathway development Working group support Basic financial and commissioning impact |