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Avoid Prescribing

Why have strategies to avoid prescribing antibiotics not been more widely adopted, and how can we facilitate this?

 In this workstream our objectives are to:

  1. Ascertain the underpinning barriers and facilitators acting at the individual and practice-level to explain why delayed/back-up prescribing and strategies to avoid prescribing based on enhanced consultation skills (eg improved communication training or point of care tests), which have not been widely adopted in general practice in England.
  2. Develop and test novel solutions to target these barriers and factilitators, based on the priniciples of co-design with healthcare professionals and patients, to substantially increase uptake of all strategies across England.
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The Bio-medical Research Council (BRC), a part of the Oxford Hospital Radcliffe Trust (OHRT), funds research and many of our staff are involved in BRC research.

Our research is funded from a variety of funders. Their support allows our research to focus on the basic and clinical research domains to accelerate knowledge translation from the bedside to the bench, and back again.