3.7 Responsibilities of prescribers
There was evidence that prescribers develop demarcation lines whereby
they identify where their responsibilities should be prioritised and,
conversely, where tasks can be entrusted to others. This was apparent in
the context of considering the extent to which the GP was responsible
for the review of medication initiated pre-admission – “the GP
is better placed at optimising those kind of doses unless we [believe
we should] outright stop it. For optimisation we have to have
good reason as to why we have chosen to optimise it. We only see the
patient acutely” (Doctor, 2017).
The sentiments described in this theme overlap with the theme of
competing priorities.