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Dr Nigel Masters, a retired GP, formerly of Highfield Surgery, Hazlemere. Email mastersnigel@gmail.com or use the contact form.

Three or four words added to a prescription to describe the effect of the medicine on the patient, such as atenolol “to prevent migraine”. What is a clinical indication?

It won the GP Enterprise Awards 2004 and the BUPA Communication Award in 2005 (the awards), and the GMC’s prescribing guidance advises prescribers to consider including clinical indications (what the guidance says).

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