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The Yorkshire and Humber ARC infrastructure activities linked to the Implementation Laboratory suite of work entails collaborating with our regional ICSs to test out the Implementation Laboratory approach. The approach consists of systematically manipulating aspects of audit and feedback design and assessing effects over time, using routine data). The aim is to stimulate improvement.

Lowering Anti-Microbial Prescribing (LAMP) is an audit and feedback campaign within our infrastructure work: general practices receive electronic bimonthly evidence-based feedback reports. Running for over four years, it has reached over 500 general practices across the region. Antibiotic prescribing in West Yorkshire has fallen by 24% in this period. Without a control group, we are, however, cautious about attributing this solely to LAMP.

We have secured further funding to:

  • Evaluate the impact of audit and feedback on prescribing health inequalities
  • Evaluate initiatives linked to the National Diabetes Audit to improve insulin pump uptake

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Currently Underway

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