New analysis of how practices in two-thirds of England’s CCGs use a prescribing decision support technology, conducted between April 2018 and March 2019, has found that thousands of professionals had been acting on the alerts, helping prescribers to comply with self-care prescribing guidelines from NHS England. The analysis reveals that 5 million alerts were sent to prescribers over the period, resulting in projected avoided costs to the NHSof over £10 million.