GP prescribing fall shows opioid warning letters worked, says health dept
The letters had been condemned as 'initimidating'
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GPs sent ‘nudge’ letters warning about their opioid prescribing rates subsequently wrote 90,450 fewer opioid scripts the following year, the federal Department of Health claims.
In 2018, then-chief medical officer Professor Brendan Murphy wrote to 4800 doctors informing them they were in a group of GPs whose opioid prescribing was higher than 80% of their peers.