Whickham Cottage Medical Centre

Address: WHICKHAM COTTAGE MED PRAC, RECTORY LANE,WHICKHAM, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, TYNE & WEAR, NE16 4PD

Part of Sub-ICB Location: NHS NEWCASTLE GATESHEAD

Part of PCN: GATESHEAD INNER WEST PCN

Current practice type: GP Practice

Practice locations are approximate, based on postcode.

Standard measures

Our 73 standard measures compare performance across England. This is the measure where Whickham Cottage Medical Centre has the greatest potential for improvement. View all 73 measures...

NHS low priority measures

These are measures about low-value items which NHS England says should not routinely prescribed in primary care. This is the ranking of Whickham Cottage Medical Centre for all low-value items combined. View the 24 measures...

You can browse all of our measures by topic: Antimicrobial Stewardship (10), Cardiovascular system (11), Central Nervous system (3), Cost Saving (33), Diabetes (5), Efficacy (18), Erectile Dysfunction (1), Eye (1), Gastrointestinal system (1), Generic prescribing (2), Greener NHS (3), Infections (11), NHS England - items which should not routinely be prescribed in primary care (24), Mental Health (5), NICE (24), Nutrition (4), Opioids (5), National medicines optimisation opportunities (10), Pain (13), Mentioned in Papers (2), Reproductive system (1), Respiratory (4), Retired measures (0), Safety (25)

Savings on individual presentations

Every month, we identify the biggest cost saving opportunities for Whickham Cottage Medical Centre. We also indicate cheaper options, based on what others have prescribed.

£11,884
The theoretical maximum of savings this practice could have saved this month through prescription switches. Read more...

Price concessions cost

We estimate that in November 2024 price concessions for out-of-stock medicines will cost Whickham Cottage Medical Centre an additional
£2,001

See the full breakdown of this estimate, view costs for other months, and sign up for alerts on the price concessions dashboard.

Ghost-branded generics

New: many practices are mistakenly prescribing generics as if they are brands. See a list of generics that may be affected here.

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OpenPrescribing Labs

Our Labs page is where we develop experimental new approaches to analysing data. All data and charts on the Labs should be treated cautiously. Our experimental Lab tools automatically identify areas that may be of interest to advanced users of OpenPrescribing, however not all charts presented may be relevant to clinical practice.
To view our first Labs prototype prescribing outlier dashboard click here

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