A consultant general practitioner from Botany Junction Medical is the winner of a $2000 travel voucher after logging into the new He Ako Hiringa EPiC dashboard. Click here to read more. 

EPiC is a free, data-driven tool that enables users to explore individual, practice and national prescribing behaviours. Insights from EPiC data can help users to consider their practice and inform targeted interventions or quality improvement initiatives.

To help you get the most out of the EPiC prescribing dashboard, we've formed the EPiC data club. Both prescribers and non-prescribers can join the free data club meetings, where we'll take you on a guided tour to fully explore the dashboard data and reflection activities. You can choose to sign up as an individual or as a practice team. Our next data club is Wednesday 17 August, 6:00pm-7:00pm.

The antihypertensive medicine Accuretic (quinapril in combination with hydrochlorothiazide), is being withdrawn. Prescribers are advised to change all patients taking Accuretic to alternative medicine(s) when their next monthly prescription is due. Read our article for dose equivalence tables and information on switching, monitoring, co-payments and consultation fees.
 

This guide highlights the different features in EPiC, helping you to navigate through the dashboard. Our case study provides an example of how EPiC can be used to carry out quality improvement activities. 

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With recent funding changes to adalimumab, prescribers are being urged to change patients from Humira (the reference biological) to Amgevita (a biosimilar). We’ve collated this list of questions and answers, with links to other useful resources, to help inform your conversations with colleagues and patients.