National dementia champion Sir Ian Carruthers has written a joint letter with the Alzheimer's Society to all Strategic Health Authorities in England, calling on them to undertake 'local audits of current practice' in GP prescribing and prescribing in care homes of antipsychotics for patients with dementia.

All PCTs and SHAs have to provide a progress report, outlining the improvements they have made in reducing antipsychotic prescribing by GPs, to the care services minister Paul Burstow in November.

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