Prescribing support 
Prescriptor-Pyramid
Integration of Prescribing and Medicines Management
The Prescriptor-Pyramid is an illustration of the different views, layers and dimensions of the prescribing process. The prescribing process is an important part of what is called “medicines management”, a holistic approach to optimizing the use of medicines. Medicines management ‘encompasses the entire way that medicines are selected, procured, delivered, prescribed, administered and reviewed to optimise the contribution that medicines make to producing informed and desired outcomes of patient care’ (A Spoonful of Sugar - Medicines Management in NHS Hospitals). It is essential that a holistic approach is taken to medicines management, rather than the present, fragmented, sector-specific system. Read more
The dimensions and the layers of the Prescriptor-pyramid
As with Prescriptor-EPS, one can apply electronic guidelines from multiple sources. It can be seen as the follow-up tool for the ongoing implementation and prescribing support of some of these medicine management approaches. The feedback of these approaches into the prescribing process doesn’t affect all guidelines so there will always be a level of national and/or regional fundament and consensus in place, overridden only in part by local preferences, e.g. for certain preferred medicines. This mixture of guidelines is shown on the front of the Prescriptor-Pyramid diagram and shows the hierarchy of guideline sources that are accessed on behalf of the end user. Read more
Prescriptor-Pyramid