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(asked on 10th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

Her Majesty's Government why data on the use of Guidance on Risk Assessment and Stroke Prevention for Atrial Fibrillation is no longer collected as part of the Medicines Optimisation Dashboard.


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Lord O'Shaughnessy
This question was answered on 19th July 2017

NHS England has advised that as only 22% of general practice surgeries use this tool, and there are charges to the National Health Service for doing so, it was decided the tool was not appropriate as a metric in the Medicines Optimisation Dashboard.

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