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.