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AHSN Atrial Fibrillation Card Deck_2018 Refresh
The Academic Health Science Network for the North East & North Cumbria have refreshed the Anticoagulant Treatment in Atrial Fibrillation […]
Valproate Pregnancy Prevention Programme
The MHRA has determined that valproate medicines should now be contraindicated in women & girls of childbearing potential unless the […]
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 […]