Greater Glasgow and Clyde Medicines

Guideline News for October 2021

MHRA Drug Safety Update for October 2021

This post summarises the latest NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde decisions relating to new medicines assessed by SMC and considered by the Area Drug and Therapeutics Committee (ADTC) and uses a nationally developed format specifically aimed for patients and the public.

For full details of the medicines included in this post that are available for use, including any restrictions on prescribing, please see the relevant entry in the GGC Formulary

This update covers local formulary changes and decisions not related to recent SMC advice such as formulary appeals, new drug assessments and formulary section reviews

Guideline News for September 2021

Key Medicine Shortages for September 2021

Sevodyne® is now NHSGGC Preferred brand of buprenorphine 7 day transdermal patches

MHRA Drug Safety Update September 2021

NUTRITION UPDATE – What’s new?

Updated Oral and Enteral Nutrition Formulary Adults and Older Children 
Abbott Ensure® Product Range Review
Updated Gluten Free Food Formulary 
New Clinical Guidelines

Drug Safety Update – Laxatives and the use of starch-based thickeners

Reducing the risk of aspiration in those patients taking thickened fluids and using polyethylene glycol/macrogol laxatives