{"id":4172,"date":"2026-03-05T11:09:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nhsdorset.nhs.uk\/medicines\/?page_id=4172"},"modified":"2026-03-06T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:14:00","slug":"pinh-quality-improvement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nhsdorset.nhs.uk\/medicines\/value\/pinh-quality-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"PINH Quality improvement indicators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1310.4px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><span data-contrast=\"none\">PCN teams will be asked to complete 3 Quality Improvement metrics as part of the PINH scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">All PCN teams will be expected to complete the Problematic Polypharmacy metric, with the choice of completing a further 2 quality metrics in a clinical quality area where improvements are possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Quality measures:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Problematic Polypharmacy: over 70yrs taking 10+ medicines (qualifying)<\/li>\n<li>Reducing antibiotic prescribing in children (0-9yrs)<\/li>\n<li>Preventing falls: Hypotension risk in frail people over 80yrs<\/li>\n<li>Improving asthma prescribing in people \u226512yr prescribed SABA only for Asthma<br \/>\nwithout Inhaled Corticosteroid (ICS).<\/li>\n<li>Reduction in NSAID prescribing in people with osteoarthritis at a high risk of<br \/>\nbleeding<\/li>\n<li>Reducing prescribing of high dose &gt;120mg morphine equivalence<\/li>\n<li>Reducing the No. of people co-prescribed opioids and benzodiazepines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Resources to support chosen prescribing improvement in neighbourhood health scheme 2627 (PINH) quality improvement indicators are available on the NHS Dorset Medicines Optimisation <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nhsdorset.nhs.uk\/medicines\/training-and-resources\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">training and resources web page.<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Only Order What You Need campaign resources and further information can be found on the NHS Dorset <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nhsdorset.nhs.uk\/health\/medicines\/waste\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">medicines waste webpage.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":3067,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4172","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhsdorset.nhs.uk\/medicines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhsdorset.nhs.uk\/medicines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhsdorset.nhs.uk\/medicines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhsdorset.nhs.uk\/medicines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhsdorset.nhs.uk\/medicines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nhsdorset.nhs.uk\/medicines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4485,"href":"https:\/\/nhsdorset.nhs.uk\/medicines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4172\/revisions\/4485"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhsdorset.nhs.uk\/medicines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhsdorset.nhs.uk\/medicines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}