Prescribing

Opioid use has fallen in County Durham and Sunderland, campaigners claim

Painkillers Don't Exist said the number of high-strength opioids prescribed has gone down.

The plans will improve the way patients and healthcare professionals access and manage medicines.

CPhO calls for more openness and greater use of social prescribing to prevent medicines harm.

Small number have reported symptoms consistent with thyroid dysfunction when their tablets were changed to a different product.

The PSNC has reported that Repaglinide 1mg and 2mg tablets are back in stock.

The RPS has called for legal restrictions on the use of controlled drugs in research to be removed.

Some batches of Syonell 250mg and 500mg gastro-resistant tablets have product packaging information errors.

The Department of Health and Social Care has said pharmacists may substitute Evorel and Estraderm for Estradot 75mcg patches.

Community pharmacists could play a valuable role in prescribing for a wide range of common and long-term conditions, says the RPS.

The Welsh arm of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has issued a pharmacy manifesto ahead of the May 6 elections.

New guidance clarifies the obligations on suppliers in Regulation 28 and 29 of the Health Service Products Regulations 2018.

Independent prescribing training for pharmacists will be a “game changer” for the NHS in Scotland, the sector negotiator has said.

100mg tablets found in sealed packs of trimethoprim 200mg.

Some medicines are already becoming unavailable in Northern Ireland because of the Brexit protocol, an industry spokesperson has said.

Only 'standard' 125 and 200ml packs to be included in Tariff in the future - all other sizes to be de-listed.

Data on medicines prescribed and administered in hospitals will be collected as part of research into patients' Covid care.

NICE is promising to speed up patients' access to the latest and most effective treatments as part of its new five-year strategy.

The PDA has warned members they are putting patients at risk if medicines they prescribe are not made known to their GP.

NSH guidance aimed at reducing prescriptions for OTC medicines saw a drop of just 4.4 per cent for simple analgesia prescriptions in its first year.

Opioid prescribing varies considerably across England and is especially marked in areas of high socio-economic deprivation, a study shows.