PICKERING Medical Practice has been awarded a Patient Safety Achievement award.
The practice recently designed a project with the aim of de-prescribing inappropriate or unnecessary medications for patients who were known to be severely frail.
A spokesman said: “At its core, the project was determined to improve patient safety, to provide good clinical care in high quality patient interactions and to have a strong legacy of clinical practice changing for the better.
“Our doctors found the project really rewarding and have since scaled up the work to more patients and two more local practices.
“As a result the work was awarded a Patient Safety Achievement award at the regional Improvement, Innovation and Impact Awards."
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