This bulletin supports the implementation of NHSE guidance on items which should not be routlinely prescribed in primary care and provides the rationale for not initiating lidocaine plasters in new patients, and for current patients to be considered for discontinuation of their prescription for lidocaine plaster.
Resources include a bulletin, briefing, educational slideset, text message and review letter templates, audit, searches, cost comparison charts, infobriefs and visual data pack.
