How this fits in

Several studies have explored the potential of using electronic health record data in regional quality improvement initiatives, but no single initiative has met all the following needs: benchmarking, individual case-finding, and scalability with minimal resource use to enable sustainability. The current project designed and piloted bespoke reports to allow benchmarking of practice-level prescribing safety indicators with individual case-finding. These reports are provided at no cost to GPs contributing to the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and aim to improve prescribing safety by offering standardised patient-level case-finding with minimal GP workload. The reports were scaled up to multiple GP software systems, and hence additional UK practices, and their production and dissemination automated, thus enabling repeat reporting using minimal resources.