NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Area Drug and Therapeutics Committee
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Medicines
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Medicines
Posted: December 01, 2016.
Category - Medicines Update Primary Care
Tagged with - Opioids Flu Vaccines Mental Health Benzodiazepines NSAIDs MHRA Drug Safety Update
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Posted: November 29, 2016.
Category - Medicines Update
Tagged with - Mental Health
Quetiapine modified release (MR) preparations are no longer included in the NHSGGC Adult Formulary due to the higher acquisition cost and lack of evidence of benefit over the immediate release (IR) preparation. Quetiapine...
Posted: November 29, 2016.
Category - Medicines Update
Tagged with - Opioids
Increasing numbers of patient safety incidents involving oral oxycodone medicines have been reported to the Board CD Accountable Officer Teams across Scotland. One of the common errors is administration or prescribing of long acting instead of ...
Posted: November 29, 2016.
Category - Medicines Update
Tagged with - Mental Health
How serious is clozapine induced constipation? The short answer is potentially fatal. Constipation is an acknowledged side effect of clozapine but patients are reluctant to report it. Indeed there is some suggestion that the impact of clozapine...
Posted: November 15, 2016.
Category - Medicines Update Primary Care
Tagged with - Mental Health Wounds Formulary
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Posted: November 10, 2016.
Category - Medicines Update
Tagged with - Smoking Cessation
Varenicline has been added to the NHSGGC Formulary Preferred List, along with nicotine replacement therapy (NRT).
Posted: November 10, 2016.
Category - Medicines Update
Tagged with - Wounds
The Therapeutic subgroup of ADTC have issued some prescribing reminders for those working in primary care. The full document can be accessed
Posted: November 10, 2016.
Category - Medicines Update
Tagged with - Dronedarone
Amiodarone and dronedarone are both included in the NHSGGC Total Formulary restricted to specialist initiation. ...
Posted: October 26, 2016.
Category - Medicines Update
Tagged with - Antimicrobial Prescribing
The 2016 European Antibiotic Awareness Day falls on 18th November. More information on how to be an antibiotic guardian can be found at http://antibioticguardian.com/
Posted: October 26, 2016.
Category - Medicines Update
The NHSGGC Creatinine Clearance Calculator for adult patients is now available for desktop users here under the “other links” secti...