Antibiotic usage audit

20th November 2018

Stockport CCG has currently become an outlier for antibiotic prescribing within Greater Manchester. As a result we need to evidence that our antibiotic usage is appropriate.

We ask if you could spend a small amount of time rating your antibiotic prescribing using a simple scale. We recognise that low antibiotic use alone is a poor measure of quality and would like to be able to demonstrate a regular sample indicting quality.

We’d expect some prescribing to not follow the guidelines, but we would expect these instances to be limited.

The report will be run in practice by the Practice Based Medicines Coordinator or Medicines Coordinator and the export will then be run through an excel spreadsheet to get a randomised sample (5% of total antibiotic scripts per month). The return will be expected by the end of the following month and should be sent to the business manager for your area on a monthly basis.

You can find the reference the guidance for antibiotics here.