We must work together to enable safer prescribing in children

摘要

I write a letter in response to The Pharmaceutical Journal article ‘GPs must take on more responsibility for paediatric prescribing from hospitals (/article/opinion/gps-must-take-on-more-responsibility-for-paediatric-prescribing-from-hospitals) ‘ by Alison Tennant, published on 13 September 2021. The opinion piece sets out to raise questions as to why more paediatric prescribing does not occur in primary care. The author states that carers “do not care who the commissioner is or who should prescribe; they simply want access to the right medicine at the right time” . It is important to stress that the GP team, hospital team, community pharmacy team, carer and, most importantly, the patient would need prescribing to be done in the safest possible manner.