Prescribing
The EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) has been introduced across the European Union to address the increasingly common issue of falsified medicines entering the legitimate medicines supply chain. Falsified medicines include those with little or no active ingredients, the wrong active...
Falsified Medicines Directive
This guidance outlines the LMC’s position on the provision of smoking cessation services and the prescribing of related medications.
Contractual Offers to Provide Smoking Cessation Services
When a practice receives an offer to provide a smoking cessation service, it is essential to:
Review...
The prescribing of Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) in Type 2 diabetes has been updated in NICE guidance, and the ICB have recently sent out a communication to all practices. The ICB have confirmed that there has been no implementation funding from NHS England, and the ICB position is that...
Attached is a weekly update from the GPC along with a supply update.
GPC Weekly update to LMCs with a supply update
Supply issues update for primary care August 2018 (w/c 20 August)
This report has been produced by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) Medicine Supply team, for the PRESCQIPP network to provide an update on current primary care medicine supplies issues that we are working on. Please...
Medicine Supply Update - November/December 2018
This report has been produced by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) Medicine Supply Team and covers new issues, on-going issues, eye drops/treatments, resolved issues, vaccines and discontinuations.
Medicine Supply Issues Department of Health and Social Care (February 2019)
Below is an update on the work on the continuity of supply of medicines as part of the Government’s contingency preparations for a ‘no deal’ EU exit. As you know, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has been leading contingency planning and work is well advanced across all sectors of...
NHS England Guidance for over the counter items (SSLMCs April 2018)
Guidance re OTC prescribing in Primary Care (Surrey & Sussex LMCs April 2018)
Conditions for which OTC items should not routinely be prescribed (Surrey & Sussex LMCs April 2018)
NHSE Proposals to issue new guidance (NHSE April 2017)
Consultation on items routinely prescribed (NHSE August 2017)
The advice on the use of Patient Group Directions (PGDs) and Patient Specific Directions (PSDs) in general practice takes into account the latest guidance published by...
