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New Guide to Prescribing Specials
The NECS MO Quality and Governance group recently approved a comprehensive guide to the use of pharmaceutical specials in primary […]
MHRA Warning – Watch out for look-alikes & sound-alikes
The MHRA have recently highlighted the dangers associated with medicines with look-alike or sound-alike names – including cases with fatal outcomes, […]
Reducing Medication-Related Harm
The Department of Health and Social Care have published a Short Life Working Group report on reducing medication-related harm. The report, […]
Medicines Use and Safety Update – March 2018
The Medicines Use and Safety Division of the Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) have published a March 2018 update on the SPS website […]
NICE Bites – Asthma
The North West Medicines Information Service publish monthly “NICE Bites” bulletins summarising key points from NICE Clinical Guidelines and Technology […]
NICE Key Therapeutic Topics 2018
The 2018 update of NICE ‘medicines optimisation: key therapeutic topics‘ has been published. The evidence context for all the current topics has […]
RCGP TARGET Antibiotic Newsletter
The team responsible for the RCGP TARGET Antibiotic Toolkit have just published the second in their new series of quarterly […]
RCGP/CPRD Quality Improvement Project
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and the MHRA Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) have developed confidential bespoke practice and […]
NHS England Guidance on responsibility for prescribing between primary and secondary/tertiary care
NHS England has published guidance on Responsibility for prescribing between primary and secondary/tertiary care The guidance has been produced in partnership […]