Shared care is a term used within the NHS to describe the situation where a specialist doctor wishes to pass some of the patient’s care, such as prescription of medication, over to their general practitioner (GP). This is something that can be requested but the guidance for all medications is that this may only be done if the GP agrees. The GP will need to consider a number of factors to decide if this is safe.
As a surgery, we will review all requests for shared care prescribing using the following checklist. Please be aware that if we cannot satisfy all of the outcomes, we will not be able to enter into shared care prescribing.
For our shared care framework please click here