News New Repeat Prescribing Toolkit introduced to Primary Care Teams 2 July 2025 Share Share on Linkedin Share on X Share via email News Medicine safety & optimisation Health Innovation KSS recently hosted three workshops to introduce a newly released Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) endorsed Repeat Prescribing Toolkit to practices and PCNs, as part of our work with ICB Medicines Optimisation/Management Teams across our region. Toolkit development Clare Howard, clinical advisor and lead author of the toolkit, joined us to outline how it was developed following recommendations from the National Overprescribing Review and RPS and RGCP, which commissioned the work in 2023. Development of the toolkit included consideration of medicine safety and what can happen when repeat prescriptions are not properly governed and managed. It considered two important areas: Prevention of Future Deaths Reports – How has the repeat prescribing process contributed to or caused patient deaths in England? A systematic, collective case series of prevention of future deaths reports 2019–2023 | Drugs & Therapy Perspectives. NHS 111 – increase in use for accessing repeat prescriptions. Helping practices and PCNs streamline repeat prescribing Over the three events, we were joined by a total of 319 delegates, including ICB colleagues, GPs, PCN pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and administrative team members from Kent, Surrey and Sussex. The purpose of the sessions was to demonstrate how implementing the toolkit could support practices to review and streamline repeat prescribing processes to improve patient safety and efficiency within the practice. Through undertaking a self-assessment process, the toolkit gives practices the opportunity to identify areas where they may have a problem with oversupply of medicines, agree on areas of priority, and develop an action plan to address these. It is organised into five elements to enable practices/PCNs to prioritise a particular area of focus and agree realistic timeframes for implementation, in line with available capacity. The Toolkit is broken down into five elements: patient/carer, clinical, administrative, technical and organisational culture. A recording of one of the sessions can be found here and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) from the three sessions. For more information on the Repeat Prescribing Toolkit programme contact Lisa.Devine5@nhs.net.