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 […]