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Implications of the Crown Report and nurse prescribing
Terence Stephenson
Academic Division of
Child Health, School of Human Development, Queen's Medical Centre,
Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
Correspondence to: Prof. Stephenson email: Terence.Stephenson@nottingham.ac.uk
Accepted 6 June 2000
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Introduction |
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Surgeons operate and physicians prescribe. However, some paediatricians know less about drugs, their prescription, and the legislation governing medicines than their surgical counterparts about anatomy and operative technique. For the first half century of its existence, the British Paediatric Association did not have a Medicines Committee. Yet it is now becoming clear that thirty years after the thalidomide disaster and the ensuing Medicines Act (1968), children remain disadvantaged compared to adults in the development of new drugs and in the scrutiny of old drugs.1 2 The two recent Crown Reports add to the complexities of prescribing for children but also represent opportunities for innovation to improve the quality of the service we can offer families.
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Background to the Crown Committee |
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The Government established a review of prescribing, supply, and
administration of medicines in 1997 chaired by Dr June Crown. The
review grew out of a desire to make greater use of the skills and
experience of the
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