The HRB Centre for Primary Care Research hosted an international collaborative knowledge exchange and dissemination meeting on 'Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing: Epidemiology, Interventions and Policy Implications' on Tuesday, 26 November in RCSI.

The meeting summarised recent activities in the area of potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) and consisted on a number of focussed presentations from researchers at the HRB Centre for Primary Care Research, Queen's University Belfast and the Universities of Nottingham, Manchester and Dundee.

These talks related to the development of prescribing indicators to enhance quality, safety and cost-effectiveness of prescribing, practice based interventions including academic detailing and decision support for clinicians, and health policy implementations to reduce PIP.

The meeting was attended by national and international academics, clinicians and policy makers with an interest in effective medicines monitoring.